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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: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Friday June 14 2019, @03:09PM (4 children)

    by Entropy (4228) on Friday June 14 2019, @03:09PM (#855597)

    This isn't the 1970s. That was basically 50 years ago. Stop talking about crap that happened a half century ago.

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @04:18PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @04:18PM (#855635)

    The attitudes and behaviors continue to this day. Things have improved significantly over the past 100 years, but culture changes slowly.

    Look around you. You don't have to look far. Just read the comments on this story.

    Ask your sisters (in-law) about it. Ask your female friends and co-workers. Stop women on the street, Count the news reports about women being murdered by their (male) partners. And count the news reports abut how many men are murdered by their (female) partners. The difference is *stark*.

    These attitudes are still embedded in our culture. Claiming that they don't exist won't make them go away, as much as you might want it to.

    I'm not saying that you're bad or wrong for being male. I'm not saying you should be penalized or punished for it. I'm saying that equality for *everyone* is a goal to be worked towards. We're not there yet. Why don't we work together to make it happen?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @05:55PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @05:55PM (#855669)

      There's a reason for that. Women victims of domestic violence are provided with far more protection and support than male victims of domestic violence are. In most cases, nothing is ever done when it's women committing the crimes and as such, there's far less likelihood of them going that far. The murders tend to happen when the abuser thinks the victim is going to leave. Or has already left.

      That being said, even when it does make the news, the reporters rarely cover it as a domestic violence issue. How many articles correctly indicated that Phil Hartman's or Steve McNair's deaths were the result of domestic violence? It was sort of in there, but it wasn't something that I saw explicitly stated.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @07:57PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @07:57PM (#855728)

        The murders tend to happen when the abuser thinks the victim is going to leave. Or has already left.

        I see. So the solution is to stay and get beaten instead of leaving and be murdered.

        You're a genius! You'll get the Nobel Prize for this!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @01:24PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @01:24PM (#855973)

          Ahem, Incelrize