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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrestling is super creepy and weird.[/quote]

Second only to boxing in terms of how ugly it is. Followed by football and hockey. All too dangerous and not at all fun to watch.
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I could not disagree more.  Wrestling is far from ugly.  It is a combat sport, but the intent of the sport is not violence (like football or boxing).  The intent is to pin your opponent, not knock them unconscious.

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Wrestling is an incredibly challenging sport. In 9th grade I was 105 pounds. That year was All State in cross country and went on to run 4:06 in the mile and went to college on athletic scholarship. State champion so it wasn’t like pursuing track was a mistake.

The wrestling coach invited me to a try out in 9th grade and I beat the varsity guy. I wasn’t that surprised since I just set the school chin-up record and was very strong for my size. The coach - who I respected - acknowledged my track talent but laid out the case why I would be a better wrestler. My track coach didn’t disagree with the wrestling data, but in the end wrestling was just brutally tough and difficult. Yes, I likely should have stood up to the challenge, especially in the Midwest where wrestling is valued, but the truth is I won a lot of races being relatively relaxed and enjoying it until kicking like crazy (I had speed and ran sprints as well) at the end. Wrestling required continual vigilance, even against an inferior opponent. Wrestlers are tough and I admire them tremendously. Only an effete cohort could find fault with them. [/quote]

WTF is “an effete cohort”?  Who specifically are you denigrating here?  Women?  Gay people?  [/quote]

DCUM trolls who hate athletics. (By the way I have known very tough wrestlers who happen to be gay). The DCUM type trolls disliked me because my academic achievements were even better than my athletic ones, and it disrupted their dumb athlete narrative. I was the editor of a top 10 law school law review, and at the very top of the class, one of my editorial board colleagues informed me how I was resented for my athletic background and to be aware of this reality - he was right. And there is a group here on DCUM who dislikes athletes and doesn’t remotely understand them. Typical shallow thinking to assume that gays or women were the target here (my single mother was one of the best athletes I ever came  across). [/quote]

What do you imagine the word “effete” means?

ef·fete: (of a man) behaving in a way traditionally associated with women and regarded as inappropriate for a man.

That’s a word used a lot by educated homophobes to describe gay men and/or what they imagine to be “gay behavior.”  I’d urge you to find a different word.

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