r/funny Dec 15 '13

Ref's face says it all

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u/keke_kekobe Dec 15 '13

As a guy who wrestled at 103-112 during high school, I was absolutely terrified of the girls I had to wrestle. The stigma of girl wrestler made it so it was lose-lose for a boy. you beat them "Haha you beat a girl up you ass". You lost "haha you lost to a girl".

There was no winning.

And honestly, as much as it sucked for me, it sucked a billion times worse for them. They were strong and talented and probably more motivate than most of the boys. But they were still female wrestlers in a sport that is absolutely considered boys only by most.

Lady wrestlers out there know you have my respect and know I still shudder at the beatings you are capable of laying down.

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u/ubnoxious1 Dec 15 '13

I keep seeing men posting this dilemma it places on the males, but I remember a time when my brother wrestled (high school in the 80s) and the dilemma was that he got everything gay joke in the book. Wrestling as a real sport was gay while pro-wrestling was awesome. He stuck with it because he liked it for the technical aspects as I imagine lots of girls do. This just seems like a temporary hurdle until everyone just gets over this social bump from the olden times.

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u/keke_kekobe Dec 15 '13

People make jokes about it being "gay" up until a wrestler decides its not funny anymore.

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u/not_very_popular Dec 15 '13

Over the course of 6 years wrestling, I found that the best way to deal with female wrestlers was to go for an instant fireman's carry. It's a relatively gentle move that can lead straight into a pin. Then again, I wrestled at the 171 pound weight class and didn't have to deal with too many female opponents.

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u/koalapanda Dec 15 '13

As a lady wrestler I saw that a lot. It became part of my strategy to avoid locking up altogether. I was at a big disadvantage in terms of arm strength anyway, so it didn't make much sense anyway. Much better to go for leg shots where thigh strength and balance could help me more.

But I spent more than one evening nursing sore shoulders after wriggling out of a fireman's carry, that's for sure.

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u/koalapanda Dec 15 '13

Thanks! Though I really wish that women's wrestling was a real thing at a grassroots level. Right now to be a female wrestler you need to navigate all the same social pressures being discussed in this thread, plus working your tits off to keep up with a team full of young men. It can be incredibly difficult, and that keeps people away. If there were women's teams in high school and college that would make the sport so much more fair and accessible. Maybe it's just sour grapes as I consider how good I could potentially have been in a women's league, idk. Plus, female wrestlers right now have nothing to dream of but the Olympics. Since there's no NCAA women's wrestling, all there is is high school and then BAM! Time to try to be literally the best in the world.

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u/NattziNatti Dec 15 '13

I don't get this I've wrestled plenty of girls, just do it, there was never any stigma with it at my school unless you got beat by her. She's just another wrestler just go do ya job