Unbelievable. Utterly unbelievable.
There are no adequate epithets to convey my complete disgust with you. You have managed to embody every cliche of classic knuckle-dragging sexism in your posts. Have you nary a single original thought?
Since when has a combatant’s pride been a deciding factor in a match? “I’m so sorry, Mr. Shamrock, but you will not be allowed to fight Mr. Gracie, as his ego may be severely wounded should you happen by some miracle to win.” Your rationale is that women will be defacto excluded because your big tuff hombres would lose face. I would think that trained fighters would not allow themselves to be handicapped by their irrational fears.
You know nothing about me or my abilities, and yet you feel qualified to judge me before even knowing me. I train in an all-male school that is neither performance nor sport focused, but combat oriented. We do not ‘point spar’, we fight. It is highly likely that given our focus, we routinely train much more savagely that many of the little tender, emotionally fragile boys that will be attending this testosterone-worship fest. I have earned my level of competence, sir.
Without knowing a single thing about me, you dismiss me as a fighter. Without giving me a chance to prove myself in any way, shape or form, you in one stroke wipe out all my hard work, dedication, talent, and ability. You perpetuate harmful myths with your attitudes, and hold back talented fighters of both genders, and you insinuate that my kwoon brothers “take it easy” on me. They might have something to say about that.
On top of having been born a female, I am also hispanic, a veteran, a corporate executive, and have been known to vote democrat. Any other pre-judgements you would like to make, since we are unlikely to ever meet face to face? Perhaps some of your fighters would be uncomfortable stepping into the ring with a wet.back, better not let people like me in, you know, we all carry switchblades and we’ll jump you in da parkinlot and cut chu, mon…
Enjoy your homegrown fightclub fantasy matches. You are correct, you will not see women there, because you do not want women there - it is clearly not about true martial arts combat ability, but about male-to-male hom0erotic competition and bonding. In the front of your mind, you will continue to feel that your view is correct, because no women show up begging to be given an equal chance when there is a big “no girls allowed!” sign on the treehouse.
You will use that circular logic to justify your continued exclusion of good fighters. But somewhere in the back of your brain, you will always know that this is an artificial reality. I truly have no problem if you want to have a boys-only fightclub, but have the balls to call it what it is, instead spouting all that “boys are scared to fight girls, therefore it wouldn’t be fair to the boys” garbage, ok? Making someone responsible for the emotional wellbeing of another is ludicrous. Penalizing them for that is criminal.
Should we ever meet on the street, Mr. Martin, I pray that you dismiss me in as equally a cavalier manner as you have today. You will make my path to victory short and sweet by underestimating an opponent so blindly.
