girl wrestling high school was a different world 30 years ago. girls who wandered onto the wrestling mat got pounded. it wasn't nice. but like i said, it was a different world before title ix. to be fair, boys who didn't belong on the wrestling mat got pounded too. a boy wrestling a girl was in a no win situation. if you win, so what? you beat a girl. if you lose, it's worse. ha ha ha ha ha ha! you got beat by a girl. anywho. about a dozen years ago i saw the first girl on the wrestling mat who looked like she belonged there. which is actually pretty cool. mostly because i had to re-evaluate my self. california high schools have girl wrestling teams. but not in middle school. b's team started out 10% girls. by the end of the season half the boys and all but one of the girls disappeared. it's a pretty tough sport. anywho. there really is no gender issue during a match. when you're wrestling you don't have the brain power to even notice your opponents sex organs. much less appreciate how good her breasts feel. the problem comes before and after. it's all mental. fuck, i have to wrestle a girl. shit, i just did that to a girl?! exactly how much this messes with a boy depends on the his world view. some boys will be completely ambivalent. some will avoid the situation entirely by refusing to wrestle girls. both positions are completely natural and a-okay. but then there are the boys who feel really good about having put that bitch in her place. even if he didn't. hrm. i'm totally in favor of girls having a league of their own.  ¶ 8:00 AM