Opinion : Guys, you just CAN\'T win!

Finally, a gentlemen is born.

Well, I know there are real gentlemen out there, but sometimes we take them for granted.

It seems guys just can't win in our society.

If they don't open the door, they get criticized for not being a gentlemen...if they do, women whine that they don't need special treatment just because they're a woman.

If a man makes a crack about anything remotely complimentary to a woman, he probably will get slapped with a sexual harrassment charge.

If you ask your husband for a backrub, and he does it wrong, well you know where this is going.

This weekend, I heard about Joel Northrup who made me proud. He refused to wrestle a girl so he could possible win the state wrestling tournament.

Sure, he blamed it on his religious beliefs and in a round about way, he's probably saying, I was raised to respect women and not wrestle them.

I hate wrestling pictures of guys. It's embarrassing. There's always someone with their backside to the camera and arms in places on someone else's body that are just, well, embarrassing.

So flip to 2011 when we now think a young man, still in school should, well, "manhandle" a woman and be okay with it.

Seriously?

Everyone really expected this young man to grab this girl, and wrestle her to a mat.

So let's see, they face each other and he's thinking, "I have to be careful not to touch her here, here or here. And be careful because I don't want to hurt her." Then the ref signals them to start.

I just bet, if I were a betting woman, that the reason this gal got as far as she did because all the boys were having this conversation with themselves.

I have great respect for this young man, nah, there's not a chapter and verse that says, "thou shalt not wrestle a girl", but he remembered his momma saying, "Treat a girl like a lady, not like one of your brothers."

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