I do worry about boys playing sport with girls. My daughter plays on the boys rugby team and she dwarfs the poor little fellas. She leaves a trail of flattened bodies & broken dreams as she storms through the centre like a Valkyrie.
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You are reminding me of being 12; to keep a softball team in the area league, we played mixed in the boys league. It was always so, so satisfying to beat the old boys teams, most memorably so the cocky ones that loudly tash talked us for having girls on the team.
The headmaster asked my mother to come for an appt. He asked her to persuade me to let the boys win occasionally during PE sports. She told him that was an inappropriate request.
The other day she went over the try line with about three little chaps clinging to each of her limbs, while their fellows lay strewn in her wake. It looked like the aftermath of a Harald Hardrada beserk episode.
My wife grew up in NZ, she says it reminds her of when the posh boys school rugby team would almost cry when they saw the predominantly Māori boys teams arrive from other schools. 12 years old & built like The Rock🤣😂
Will the experience of continually getting their arse handed to them by a girl turn a man entire generation into a bunch of angry little incels. We need to talk about this.
It’s a thing. My niece is a very good fencer. When she was younger & played against boys, she’d regularly hand them their arses. The scoring is automated & electronic & counts the hits for you. The defeated boys would regularly complain that the equipment was faulty because their egos couldn’t cope.
I do Renaissance-style rapier fighting, and we are nearly always fighting mixed-gender. There are occasionally single-gender tournaments, but it is a small number.
In all seriousness, this is an interesting topic. I saw a video where a guy claimed archery was a co-ed sport until women started winning medals over men. Then suddenly men wanted segregated archery contests. Can’t find the video. Would love to know more.
Liberals won’t like it, but it’s time we had a frank public discussion about the terror strewn by your Amazonian daughter. How much longer can it go on? Will the survivors envy the dead?
reasons I loved Muay Thai : 3 women in the class, all under 5'5. any time we were the aggressor in leg exercises all the big tough macho lads went 'oh shit do we have to?'
No, but it will turn their parents into the vitriol-spitting shitbags who can't accept anything which lies outside their myopia, and drive them into the arms of some snake-oil salesman who promises them a return to a time which never existed.
The boys at my school insisted rugby was the tough game and only ‘soft’ girls played hockey, so we challenged them to a hockey match. So many injuries….. so much limping…… so much crying…… and not from the girls 😉
My (adult women's) roller derby league sometimes held mixed training with an American football one. They were off skates, us on, or all off if we were doing their trainings. I'll grant that we were shit at throwing balls, but they were all shocked Pikachu face when we knocked them down.
My league was all cis women at the time. The football guys started out soft, then hit harder when they realised they could. They even stopped laughing at each other when they were knocked down by a woman half their size. It was actually great training for all of us. Sadly, I never learned to throw.
Also,almost every derby league has trans women players now. Ask players who really scares them. I don't remember anyone saying it's the trans women, or the biggest/strongest women (and they're usually not the same).
As a coach of mini and youth rugby - this isn't uncommon in the younger age groups given the earlier growth spurt that girls have. The boys catch up and overtake them soon enough...
Yup, my daughter was playing on the boys' high school team at 15 in the mid 90s. There was no girls HS rugby at the time in the area and she was already playing in the senior women's club leagues. It changes though once the boys hit that 16 to 18 age development.
My oldest boy (14) still plays 5 aside football with a girl on his team. It only works because they are so rubbish that they play teams two years younger than them. It will soon start getting dangerous for her.
I had a girl on my soccer team who could outrun and push most boys off the ball.
At 15, she had 0 chance anymore. Smaller guys were faster and knocked her down.
It's fine for children, but it only goes so far. (Always exceptions)
My son attended an away training session where I assume your daughter plays (well you were there anyway!) about this time last year. We only have one girl in his under 10s group but she is bloody brilliant and certainly out plays most of the boys.
It's amazing to me how many people8 can't - just absolutely CAN NOT - have a chuckle and move on. Cracks me up.
Anyway, it's awesome she plays rugby. I'd love to get mine in, but she prefers soccer (and is also currently playing against a boys' teams during the off season). 👍
Sure it is very helpful to teach boys girls can do anything they can do but better. Makes em actually work and not rest on male privilege. Then they dont grow up to be mediocrities.
Niece is going for her black belt. Told her mother last week, “I feel bad. I think I made a boy cry.” Her mother assured her it was okay. She’s pretty kick ass. I’m thinking it’s not the last boy that’s gonna cry.
My little sister used to devour the gall bladders of the boys on her soccer team out of frustration whenever they lost a game. Thankfully she got on ritilan😌
My daughter started playing ice hockey in a mixed team when she was 15. She'd be checking (hitting) the boys and would be grumpy if she came off the ice and hadn't been hit back! She is almost 6' tall😬
I love that .Story Dan.I have one of my own .My son joined Calder Vale Ruby club ( Burnley ) at aged 11 .They played a team that had girls in and lost .The same team lost 100 to nil at Waterloo in Blackpool .The same team eventually over the passage of time had 4 players selected for Lancashire
The comments on here are something else. My daughter played boys hockey until grade 11. Fastest skater on the X team and best Defence player. Most female Olympian 🏒 players grew up playing with the boys.
Brings back memories of the three girls on my son’s rugby team. Prior to games, all boy oppositions would giggle & brag about beating them because “girls”. Our boys would smile knowingly and run on to the field alongside their female teammates. What would then ensure was a joy to behold.
love this!!! when I was a competitive boxer, I put my 6'8 navy seal trainer through the gym wall with a left hook during training one day. Us Valkyrie are forces to be reckoned with!! 🙌🏻💪🏻🖤
Good for her, and I hope she thrives!!
But.
More girls will experience what I did at 9 or 10, when a boy at schools wrestled me down. I was used to fighting with boys, but this was different. I had no chance. He was strong in a way I hadn't experienced in another child. I never forgot that.
My daughter takes Brazilian Jiujitsu. Before puberty she was dominating the boys. After puberty the tables have turned. The same boys are now able to use equal skill plus greater strength. My daughter’s experience isn’t enough. Testosterone really is a game changer.
This is a very sily take. A simple early biological advantage that will disappear soon. In table tennis, under 11 competitions are sometimes mixed, you know, for a reason.
Wait till she gets a little older. I'm worried about her safety. She's going to get flattened . Hope she doesn't get broken bones, especially in her face .
1) I once persuaded the hot girl in my class to play in our interform rugby team. Her boyfriend was in the year above and considered a bit hard! Prematch I told the boys on the other team he would be watching and would kick the shit out of anyone who touched her. Worked for 10 minutes untill the
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My friend's daughter plays on a flag football team with all boys.
Loves it.
You are on a warped path of
rationalization that is harmful.
In all seriousness, this is an interesting topic. I saw a video where a guy claimed archery was a co-ed sport until women started winning medals over men. Then suddenly men wanted segregated archery contests. Can’t find the video. Would love to know more.
You'll have to counter that with facts.
Bonne chance.
At 15, she had 0 chance anymore. Smaller guys were faster and knocked her down.
It's fine for children, but it only goes so far. (Always exceptions)
Anyway, it's awesome she plays rugby. I'd love to get mine in, but she prefers soccer (and is also currently playing against a boys' teams during the off season). 👍
I remember playing sport with the lads because there were no girl's teams back in the day.
Sounds like your daughter is a chip off the old block!
But.
More girls will experience what I did at 9 or 10, when a boy at schools wrestled me down. I was used to fighting with boys, but this was different. I had no chance. He was strong in a way I hadn't experienced in another child. I never forgot that.