A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.
A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.
I sort of realize that if I was on a team of guys and learned that we were going to face a team of girls, it’d be a lose-lose scenario. Either we beat up a bunch of girls trying their best, and “celebrate” over defeating a group that has (on average) physical strength disadvantages, OR we’re mocked for losing to girls.
The premise of most athletic competitions would be that it’s a fight on generally equal footing. Either way that becomes imbalanced, it can perhaps ruin the feeling. Still sucks that the girls didn’t get to demonstrate themselves there.