My motivations are:
1. Not to be mounted by girls -
John you sound like an
OSF (Old Sexist Fart)...
Being and
old fart myself, I
get where you are coming from, but
really dude, it's time to move into the twentieth century. Then maybe even on into the twenty-first, where the rest of us live!
I mean
really, if someone is bigger, stronger, highly motivated,
and more skilled than you, they
should beat you most of the time. So why should it be more shameful to lose to such an opponent
just because they are a girl? Especially when you are talking about
kids before puberty, when girls are often as big and strong as boys their own age. Or even bigger and stronger.
I understand that this sexist social bias persists even in today's world, but we don't have to lend it support. It is very destructive. Many years back, I enrolled my young son in a jujitsu program. Like me, he was very small for his age and I hoped that like myself and my brother, he might find that a grappling sport suited him.
On his
first day the instructor had him roll with a couple of tough female students who were much larger than him and had several years of experience, including competition. Of course they effortlessly controlled him and submitted him, bruising his body and his ego. And because his social peers had sexist attitudes like the one you expressed, he couldn't accept defeat to
a girl so he quit, refused to train any more grappling, and took up TKD instead. A shame, in my opinion, since TKD did not come easily to him with his short legs, whereas he is built just like his short, powerful uncle who was a champion wrestler. Eventually he did become pretty good at theTKD, but he could have been a
natural grappler.
...Or maybe TKD
was the best choice for him. That's not the point. The point is that sexist stereotypes can be very harmful, and
harmful to boys as well as girls. So John, please tell me I misunderstood you, that you are
not an OSF, but rather just a regular OF like me!
