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Update On HS Wrestling Controversy (Original Post) ProfessorGAC Sep 2019 OP
I recall reporting about it in December of last year: TexasTowelie Sep 2019 #1
Why not permanently? gordianot Sep 2019 #2
Fair Question ProfessorGAC Sep 2019 #3
Why Permanently? Roy Rolling Sep 2019 #4
How long does it take to grow dreads? druidity33 Sep 2019 #5
Great news malaise Sep 2019 #6
I still havent figured out how getting a wedgie would help you swim faster. oldsoftie Sep 2019 #7
It's a complicated chain of events, actually. knightmaar Sep 2019 #9
I actually saw that justification in a recent article about women not wearing Hijabs oldsoftie Sep 2019 #11
Neither did that asshole malaise Sep 2019 #10
Excellent. This ruling and the significant penalty are a strong slap Hortensis Sep 2019 #8

malaise

(269,044 posts)
6. Great news
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 07:52 AM
Sep 2019

Hope the same punishment is meted out to the swimming judge in Alaska _ I don't care that the winner was reinstated - he should be nowhere around people.

knightmaar

(748 posts)
9. It's a complicated chain of events, actually.
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 08:23 AM
Sep 2019

You see, step 1, you have a girl with too much butt cheek showing
Then you have a grown man taking pictures of her butt and sharing them, probably publicly over the Internet.
Then you have his wife, and some other mothers of swimmers, worried that their husbands are looking at young girls too much and that this might encourage infidelity.
(That part sounds weird, but I am assured by women that there is a chain of reasoning in which girls are blamed because men can't control themselves.)
Those mothers then flip out, getting angry at the young girl for getting a wedgie.
The other girls in the competition then rationalize that the girl is "breaking the rules", call her a cheater, and get so wrapped up in that bullshit that they lose their races.

So, you see, teenage wedgies lead to infidelity which leads to an angry self-fulfilling prophecy of failure.

Dead simple.

oldsoftie

(12,553 posts)
11. I actually saw that justification in a recent article about women not wearing Hijabs
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 09:11 AM
Sep 2019

It was about relaxing the rules in Saudi Arabia, I think. Two men (of course) continually commented that the hijabs were for the protection of the women. They COULD have been fake people, but they had a long FB presence & I've seen others make similar idiotic statements on live TV before.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Excellent. This ruling and the significant penalty are a strong slap
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 08:09 AM
Sep 2019

at this behavior that will be noted where it should be around the nation. It also requires state high school officials to receive "implicit bias training."

Strong legal and social disapproval will have had an instructive effect on many, but even those whose reaction remains angry whining will take note of that "unfair" but potentially devastating suspension.

Of course this caused many school district and organizations to amend their manuals and discuss it with their referees long since. Most people don't go into education to victimize children.

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