Look at him lined up with everybody else. I mean, theres such a physical difference, said Maura Champigny watching her daughters team face Allen. Having a boy in a field hockey net somehow doesnt sit well.
So I'm well aware of the double standards in kids sports, but for me, when a girl plays on a boys team 99% of the time she isn't dominating over the boys... This kid is like 6,2" and a hockey goalie. No reason to he needs to play. There were two twin brothers playing some years back for another MA team and they walked through the girls in the field.
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A rare switcharoo on the classic "it's sexist if my daughter can't play in the boys sports league!"
For the love of Pete, men and women are different. Physical sports are simply not fair when genders are mixed, that's not sexist that's just reality. This big doofus does not belong on the girls field hockey team.
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Originally Posted By: Peally
This big doofus does not belong on the girls field hockey team.
Maybe he joined for other reasons?
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There are 2 reasons: he only looks like a male or he is looking to get laid.
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Originally Posted By: KraziKanuK
Originally Posted By: PanzerMeyer
Maybe he joined for other reasons?
There are 2 reasons: he only looks like a male or he is looking to get laid.
Right, I was thinking of the latter.
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That is ridiculous. Though, personally, whenever I hit against the 13 year olds I coach, I take them deep. It's quite an accomplishment. Next I plan on taking on teaching those kids what it's like to play real man basketball.
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This big doofus does not belong on the girls field hockey team.
Maybe he joined for other reasons?
Entirely possible, but the school needed to nut up and say "no, that's really stupid, go away" when he applied in the first place.
Which would be followed by a lawsuit.
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This reminds me of the joker in Germany that saw they hadn't put sexes into the events at the rodeos* and so he entered barrel racing. Nobody was amused and they re-wrote the rules afterwards to keep it a woman's event.
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If it was a boy smaller than the girls they wouldn't have said anything. Therefore, I see no problem. The ONLY reason there should be separate boys and girls teams, or mens and womens is when one gender dominates the team. Then that should be the A team that represents the school---the top talent, regardless of gender.
Then you can set up some B teams to split the genders to get the other kids that want to play some kind of game time so they can develop and try out again for the A team.
How many sports really need to be split for gender anyway, based on threat of one gender dominating? Football, basketball(?), wrestling, track and field(?). I'm not even sure about football as a whole, just certain positions.
What sports would be fine combined, saving school systems some money? Soccer, tennis, baseball/softball. Just because a boy is on a baseball team, it doesn't make him a power hitter.