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posted by martyb on Friday June 14 2019, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the *you*-try-keeping-up-with-a-bunch-of-children-all-day dept.

From Medium article:

https://elemental.medium.com/what-makes-women-strong-2c927bf286ef

"What Makes Women Strong?
Science is revealing that when it comes to physical prowess, women may actually be the more powerful sex"

"If discussions of human physical strength used endurance as the yardstick, women would be strongest. Women have already caught up to, or surpassed, men in some sports like long-distance swimming and ultrarunning, racking up the wins in mixed-gender races (with less support and training than the men). Recently, Camille Herron won 2018's Desert Solstice run, which lasts for 24 hours (she ran 162.9 miles in that time) and Courtney Dauwalter has won 11 mixed-sex ultramarathons, including the Moab 240, a 238-mile race along the Colorado River in Utah. Dauwalter beat the next-fastest competitor there, a man, by 10 hours.

In fact, plenty of research points to the idea that the longer the distance, the better chance a woman has in beating a man, possibly due to a combination of factors like high pain tolerance and less muscle fatigability. There could also be metabolic reasons — some researchers theorize that women burn energy in a way that supports long-distance energy needs. As investigative reporter David Epstein notes in his book, The Sports Gene, when a man and a woman are evenly matched, "the man will typically beat the woman at distances shorter than the marathon, but the woman will win if the race length is extended to forty miles."

[...] "Women are also bodily powerful (the definition of strong) in other ways: Women are also more flexible. "Women tend to have somewhat more laxity in their tendons than men; they are more limber," Dr. Steve Jordan, an orthopedic surgeon at the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, told The New York Times. Limber people are less likely to get hurt — less time spent on the sidelines or in surgery. Woman also have a very high degree of accuracy — and depending on the physical pursuit, that can make one athlete stronger than the next. Women on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour regularly significantly outdrive professional men. And according to the National Rifle Association's Colonel Kenneth Haynes — a military logician in the Army who taught both men and women to shoot over a multi-decade career — women shoot guns more accurately: "My units had around 20 percent female personnel in both officer and enlisted ranks. All the women fired Expert their first day, but less than a third of the men did so," writes Haynes."

So, I really wanna hear the fireworks....


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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 14 2019, @02:38PM (7 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 14 2019, @02:38PM (#855564) Journal

    Do women pay higher interest rates than men? I've never even heard that, so I'm not going to believe it just because you said that it is so.

    Gender pay gap? You're right - my boss makes a lot more money than me. I'm marching into HR on Monday, and demand equal pay! Just because she has been with the company since Methuselah was a pup, isn't cause for her to get more money! Paranthetically, how many women work all year, every year, for the same company, for fifty years? They expect to be able to take five years off, to start a family, then walk back in the door, and make the same money as the guy (or even the girl) who DID NOT take those five years off? It's not so much a "gender gap" you see in most cases, as a "mother gap". That's life - just get over it.

    Women and house work. Want one anecdote? The wife doesn't like the way I do laundry. She banished me from her laundry room. Things have stayed very much that way, for a very long time. Now that the children are grown up, and it's just her laundry and mine, she has allowed me back into the laundry room. The woman did all that work because she couldn't be happy with my work. I don't play that "Do it my way, or not at all!" game - I'll choose "not at all" every time. Culture? No, that is personal relationship 101 - don't be a shit, and you won't get shit on.

    Actually, from the pissy tone of your post - I think that you just don't like men. And, no, I don't want to hear that worn out racist thing, "Some of my best friends are men!" Exploiting the men in your life doesn't make them your friends.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @03:00PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @03:00PM (#855590)

    Do women pay higher interest rates than men? I've never even heard that, so I'm not going to believe it just because you said that it is so.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forty-years-ago-women-had-a-hard-time-getting-credit-cards-180949289/ [smithsonianmag.com]

    Gender pay gap? You're right - my boss makes a lot more money than me. I'm marching into HR on Monday, and demand equal pay!

    Equal pay for equal work -- that's not the case. You're a grunt and she's the boss. Savvy?

    Actually, from the pissy tone of your post - I think that you just don't like men. And, no, I don't want to hear that worn out racist thing, "Some of my best friends are men!" Exploiting the men in your life doesn't make them your friends.

    I don't exploit *anyone*. That would be rude and sociopathic. I try (sadly, not always successfully, but I do my best) to treat people the way I'd like to be treated.

    As for men, they're okay. *One* of my best friends is a man. And there are assholes of every stripe, including women.

    I don't like to fuck them, but otherwise men are just fine. I like to shove my hard, throbbing cock into women. It's not that I have anything against fucking men, I just never met a man I wanted to fuck. That's my way of saying that your biases are showing, as I am both genetically and socially male. I'm even an unapologetic heterosexual with a penchant for Dominating [wikipedia.org] women.

    So Runaway, once again your ignorance and small-mindedness is showing. What a shocker! Not.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 14 2019, @03:37PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 14 2019, @03:37PM (#855615) Journal

      *One* of my best friends is a man.

      Got it. You and *one* other guy are knights in shining armor, and all the rest of us are just assholes. Do me a favor, and remember that I'm the ASOCIAL asshole.

      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @03:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @03:57PM (#855625)

        Got it. You and *one* other guy are knights in shining armor, and all the rest of us are just assholes. Do me a favor, and remember that I'm the ASOCIAL asshole.

        That's not what I said. I have two *best* friends. One is a male. I have many friends of both sexes.

        But you're just being disingenuous because you disagree with me but cannot refute what I say with argument or evidence.

        And I most certainly did not call you asocial or an asshole. I said you were ignorant and small-minded. Don't put words in my mouth.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @05:58PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @05:58PM (#855670)

      [...] I am both genetically and socially male[...]

      Yes, and I am both genetically and socially a UFO (no, not a green alien, a UFO), at least that's how I identify online where no one knows that I'm actually flying jellyfish with hair!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @09:32PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @09:32PM (#855763)

        As an attack helicopter, you should be more open to varied experience.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @11:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @11:10PM (#855800)

      I followed the trail back to the original study. It's no longer up, but you can get it in the wayback machine [archive.org].

      It found that, while women do pay higher interest rates, they're also more likely to miss payments and less likely to comparison shop for the best deal among competing credit card offers. However, the difference vanished with higher levels of financial education.

      Nevertheless, women still pay higher interest rates, even when these factors are taken into account. Interest rates, of course, do not tell the whole story. Gender bias is one possible explanation, of course, but not the only one. It might be that men are more likely to get a card with an annual fee in exchange for lower interest rates, or that women are more likely to favor cards with better rewards programs in exchange for higher interest rates. The study does not claim to identify the reason for the difference (which means that writers should not cite it as evidence of gender bias... but of course this one did).

      The study did cite another study which showed significant evidence of gender bias [nber.org]... but only in Italy.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday June 14 2019, @03:46PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday June 14 2019, @03:46PM (#855620) Journal

    It's the same here: my wife doesn't ask me to dust anymore. Rarely asks me to vacuum.
    But I clean the toilet and bathroom.

    We both have jobs we do, but when she goes on about how she hates the way I do something, I stop doing it, therefore SHE has to do it.

    Anecdote? She does NOT complain about the way I do the toilet and bathroom, lol.

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