Okay, I gotta admit that this is a new one.
Now, I admit that they have a point here. I suppose that, technically, insisting that the girls on a co-ed hokey team change separately is discriminatory; but at the end of the day, even equality is trumped by safety.
We are talking about 14-year-old males here. Kids right at the age when girls stop having cooties. Right when girls start getting all curvy and cuddleable. Let's face it, you show a 14-year old male a linoleum tile, and they'll think about sex. Now you want to show them an athletic young woman around their age changing into and out of hockey gear? Maybe I'm being a little paranoid, but that strikes me as a perfect recipe for disaster.
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Or maybe they'll learn that the female body is not some taboo thing that they should make a huge deal about... maybe.
In the best of all possible worlds, I'd agree with you. And perhaps, given enough time, they will come to realize that the human, and in particular, the female body is a beautiful thing.
What worries me is the, for lack of my capacity to come up with a better term, honeymoon period. Those first few weeks when the female body is still seen as a taboo thing. You can't turn off millions of years of evolution, hudreds of years of cultural suppression of the human body, and 14 years of parents telling them that looking at naked girls is naughty overnight.
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