The author presumably got the idea from this article: google “United World Wrestling Bans Teen Wrestler From Competing in Full-Coverage Uniform & Hijab”. (It won’t let me leave the http address.)
The UUW, er, UWW, does exist, but it seems to regulate club wrestling, not scholastic. What wrestlers wear in scholastic matches would presumably be decided by the state HS association. (It would seem that wrestling is yet another sport that the author doesn’t know much about.)
Did the author create a whole Milford girls wrestling team — never seen in any previous comic — just to gin up this hijab controversy, and thus shame all of his readers about what awful racists they are? Yikes.
Ah, Corina Karenna…or as I called her, “Awful Girl™”, possibly the most annoying character in GT history. (At least until the current author took over; now every character is annoying.)
And the 4th time in the last 8 years, by my count. (We really haven’t seen a “full” girls basketball season since 2004-05, the Hadley V. Baxendale team that went 23-2 and lost in the state quarterfinals on a miracle last-second shot by Council Rock.)
In the original strip, Gil was born circa 1930, having taken the Milford job in 1958, so no WW2 for him. (It’s possible he could’ve flown/fought in Korea, but I don’t think it was ever mentioned.)
“My wife is sleeping with another woman, my daughter is pregnant and my author has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. It’s hard out there for a Thorp.”
The author presumably got the idea from this article: google “United World Wrestling Bans Teen Wrestler From Competing in Full-Coverage Uniform & Hijab”. (It won’t let me leave the http address.)
The UUW, er, UWW, does exist, but it seems to regulate club wrestling, not scholastic. What wrestlers wear in scholastic matches would presumably be decided by the state HS association. (It would seem that wrestling is yet another sport that the author doesn’t know much about.)
Did the author create a whole Milford girls wrestling team — never seen in any previous comic — just to gin up this hijab controversy, and thus shame all of his readers about what awful racists they are? Yikes.