LOL. I actually know Joe Hess.
We've been looking at this from the male perspective. Anyone ask the girl what her thoughts were on this? Maybe she was a bull-dyke and had more masculinity than the boy? It happens.
Also sounds like he was working with a serious ethical code. He didn't feel it was appropriate to be physically aggressive with a female and at the same time didn't want to be disrespectful of the effort she was putting into wrestling. Given that he was painted into a corner no matter what he did, he did the best thing and stuck with his core belief system.
Kinda rare, kinda impressive. He's a nicer person than I am.
some dude had a song something about know when to hold em/fold em AND know when to walk away :) hahaaahh reckon this is a walk away moment :)
It's the brave new world. Guys who claim to be trans now compete against girls in track & field competition. Gender fluidity also screws up the whole scheme of things. The young man in the OP decided he wasn't going to play the game, and perhaps he was right. What was wrong is now right - nothing is set as baseline normalcy any longer. At some point you just disengage from society and live in your own world. Personally, as I mentioned before, I would have engaged in the match, took the gal out (if possible) and move on. Nothing sexual at all.
Right now my little world is covered with a sheet of a half inch of ice all over a large area here. Weird ass weather in New Mexico last night and this morning. Last time this happened we lost power for a couple of weeks.
From the picture of the girl shown in the video she didn’t appear to be a Super Bull Dyke Man-Girl. He just said that it was a very aggressive, very close contact sport and felt that it was inappropriate. He basically said I believe I can withdraw while still respecting them. (That’s what he said.) I think the kid is just walking out his morale code. Right or wrong, he believes he’s doing what is right.
On the other side of the coin, she obviously knew what she was getting into when she started wrestling and had probably met boys in matches at that point. I think of old adage comes to mind: “If you want to play, you got to pay.”
Do you ever run across an old OV-1D Mohawker named Willie T.? CW4 (maybe) while you were at 160th?