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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....
(Score: 2) by The Shire on Saturday June 15 2019, @12:00AM (5 children)
Women and Men have identical intellectual capacities.
Women and Men are emotionally similar but not identical. Some of this is cultural, some of this is biological. The biological differences make women and men more suited to certain fringe roles though there is tremendous overlap for everything else.
Women and Men however are NOT physically the same no matter what laws or rules you make. Men are physically stronger. This does not imply women are incapable of physical activity or that they are not fit for roles that require a degree of physicality. It only means that in a physical contest between an average female and an average male, the male will ALWAYS win. This is why you see so much outcry when "transgender" males demand to compete in womens sports. The women are outclassed every time and it's because the transgender individual is biologically male. Biological differences are a fact you cannot deny. And honestly, vive la difference!
All these things should be intuitively obvious to anyone who is honest with themselves. The only reason it's even a topic of debate is because of the insanity that is identity politics.
Bottom line, everyone should have equal opportunity to compete based on merit. But as Clint Eastwood once said: "A man has got to know his limitations". That goes for the ladies too.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday June 15 2019, @12:20AM (2 children)
Sorry, wrong. Women and men have the same peak, nadir, and median as far as intellectual capacities go but there are far less of them at either end of the bell curve. Identical for 90% of cases is not the same as an unqualified identical.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Shire on Saturday June 15 2019, @12:52AM (1 child)
I would question the nature of any test which claims to be able to nail down a persons intellectual capacity at the far extremes of the curve. It also seems rather odd to state that women have a baseline IQ that cannot decend as far down as males. Surely human defects can allow any human of any sex to be severaly disabled intellectually. As for the flip side of the curve for exceptional IQ, I'm inclinded to attribute that (assuming such a derth exists) to the emotional differences between men and women which tend to make males more likely to take a single minded pursuit of a goal vs a females tendency to diversify their actions.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday June 15 2019, @03:42AM
Like I said, the nadir, peak, and median are all pretty much the same. More men are at both extremes than women but both sexes cover the entire range.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @04:18PM (1 child)
You say "here's the facts", but all I see are unqualified opinions.
Also, you got the gender of the "transgender" wrong, but I think you did that on purpose. It's the testosterone that makes men strong anyway, not the Y chromosome, which is why actual transgender males (taking testosterone) *dont* compete as women (not sure if they can compete at all considering their hormones might qualify as steroids). But hey, you claim to know an awful lot about trans people in sports. Maybe you can point me at some actual facts regarding how long trans people wait from starting hormones and/or cutting out the source of the old hormones until they compete relative to how well they do, how common this is, how well they actually perform relative to non-trans people of either gender, etc.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Shire on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:31PM
I got the gender exactly right... you don't become a biological woman just by declaring yourself one. If you were born male you are male. Simply removing testosterone later in life does not magically transform anyone into a female.
You want an example? How about "Tiffany Abreu". This person is one of the top players in Brazil's Superliga, the country's premiere women's volleyball league. In less than a month after joining the league she was scoring the highest number of points per game on average. Then, in January, Abreu broke the record to total points in a single game – 39. Abreu took Brazilian volleyball by storm. The thing is that 6'3" Abreu is a man, and he even made it into the men's professional volleyball leagues in Europe before deciding to present himself as a woman in 2012.
This was someone born male, developed male, has the bone and muscle structure of a male and then suddenly declared "I am woman" and in the insanity of this age, like the emperor with no clothes, everyone just went along with it for fear of being ostracized by the crazed radical left, and they allowed him to join the women's team. It's no surprise how "she" was able to break so many womens records so quickly... she isn't a she, not biologically. Testosterone is only a marker and one that doesn't speak to the physical structure of the person.
I feel bad for trans folks, I'm sure it's a very difficult psychological impairment they have to deal with. But reality doesn't change just because you want it to. We all have to live with what mother nature gave us. And if you indulge people in their delusions you only make it worse for them and for everyone around them.