This is a subject that has been antagonizing me for some time...years ago, my friend's sons were wrestling. They were forced to wrestle against a girl a few times in their career, starting in middle school. Having been raised to not hit, hurt or molest women, having to waller on a wrestling mat, using moves that, not in a match, would be considered sexual assault, was demeaning. But, because women pushed for it and got their way, young men had to endure. Fast forward 20 years. NOW, women are saying they need their safe spaces and separate competition. I get it, I'm a woman. However, part of me is aggrevated that now, since they are uncomfortable, it's wrong; not when they were getting their way against young men years before, making the boys uncomfortable.
The point is that you were competing against boys until they had a girls league, and you were willing to make boys uncomfortable, to go against their faith or force them to forfeit if they didn't want to wrestle a girl so you could have your way. My friend's sons found the experience humiliating, and they beat their girl opponents...imagine how boys felt that lost. The sexual divide kept these things in perspective. You obviously considered your needs/wants/desires more important than theirs. In my mind, your actions contributed to the problem we are having now, weakening sexual distinctiveness, whether or not you can acknowledge it.
This is a subject that has been antagonizing me for some time...years ago, my friend's sons were wrestling. They were forced to wrestle against a girl a few times in their career, starting in middle school. Having been raised to not hit, hurt or molest women, having to waller on a wrestling mat, using moves that, not in a match, would be considered sexual assault, was demeaning. But, because women pushed for it and got their way, young men had to endure. Fast forward 20 years. NOW, women are saying they need their safe spaces and separate competition. I get it, I'm a woman. However, part of me is aggrevated that now, since they are uncomfortable, it's wrong; not when they were getting their way against young men years before, making the boys uncomfortable.
The point is that you were competing against boys until they had a girls league, and you were willing to make boys uncomfortable, to go against their faith or force them to forfeit if they didn't want to wrestle a girl so you could have your way. My friend's sons found the experience humiliating, and they beat their girl opponents...imagine how boys felt that lost. The sexual divide kept these things in perspective. You obviously considered your needs/wants/desires more important than theirs. In my mind, your actions contributed to the problem we are having now, weakening sexual distinctiveness, whether or not you can acknowledge it.