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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @06:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @06:14PM (#855680)

    you're not the sharpest tool in the shed.

    Which part of my comment did you think was lacking in reasonableness, clarity of thought or logic that you would reach that conclusion?

    THAT WASN'T A JAB AT YOUR SEX OR GENDER! It was a jab at your sexist superiority complex!

    What about my comment would lead you to believe that I consider one gender to be superior to another?

    In a nutshell, I said that the reasons for a variety of differences between men and women were the result of culture, social dynamics and genetics. What about that gave you the idea that I held one sex in greater esteem than another?

    While I realize that you're trying to get a rise out of me (I suspect because you think that I am and/or identify as female, neither of which are true) by attempting to insult me (a classic trolling tactic), I'm not taking the bait. Sorry about that.

    What I'll do instead is ask you to explain:
    1. What was it, specifically, that gives you a reasonable idea that I am, as you said, "not the sharpest tool in the shed"?
    2. What was it, specifically, that gives you a reasonable sense that I have a "sexist superiority complex"?

    I'm really curious about that for a couple of reasons. I'd be really interested to know what might give you the impressions you did, as I don't see it at all. The second is to confirm my suspicion that, for whatever reasons, you don't agree with me and rather than making arguments to rebut or counter mine, you chose to troll instead.

    I expect that you won't respond at all, except possibly to once again attempt to bait me, but this reply is evidence of my hope that you'll engage in a real discussion that might garner some interesting ideas. I won't hold my breath.

    I hope you prove my pessimism to be unfounded.