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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @05:50PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @05:50PM (#855667)

    Because none of those things are true. The gender pay gap exists because women prefer other forms of compensation such as a more pleasant work environment and the ability to take vacations. If women gave those things up, they'd be making the same as men. What's more, for women that choose not to get married and have children, they make more than the men with similar circumstances do.

    As far as the household chores go, from what I've seen it's a statistical tie with the women maybe working an extra hour than the men. The reason why it seems otherwise is that women don't spend as many hours working at a job as the men do.

    As far as asking women about this, this is why these perceptions remain. Women are notoriously poor judges of what men are up to. For some reason people like you think that men know nothing about what being a woman is like, but somehow women know what being a man is like. In practice we know that's not the case, women that transition to men face a harsh reality when they do so as they're actually treated as poorly as men. Which as a side note pretty much proves that they're not doing it to get ahead in life.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @07:37PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @07:37PM (#855719)

    I'm guessing that these are the sorts of resources [motherless.com] [NSFW] you use for your "data."

    Because it's not coming from the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that's for sure.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @03:18PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @03:18PM (#856003)

      Not the AC you replied to, but I have seen an article, I think on the WSJ about a year ago where someone who transitioned to a man (who was previously a feminist!) was absolutely shocked at how difference the experience was as a man compared to a women, concerning social interactions with other people. The article detailed how people didn't listen to his opinion as much, how he was more often ignored than he was as a she, how it was harder to find help, how he even had a door almost hit him in his face after assuming the person in front would hold the door for him since he had come to expect that kind of behaviour from people before. Unfortunately I can't immediately find the article, but it was a very interesting read.

      However given the link you posted, I'm thinking that perhaps you were just trolling anyway.