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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @03:03PM (1 child)
When I got married, my wife said "as a woman, I don't want to work, I want to be a housewife" and honestly I didn't even get any say in the matter - it's just what she did. We don't have kids so there's no need for such a role, and honestly she does little more than cleaning (which I still seem to do the bulk of), wash (which I help with when not at work anyway - which is most of the time since she deliberately waits for me to be home to do it, and she doesn't iron, and I do all the folding too) or "cook". When it comes to cooking, in her case this means instant noodles, or ordering delivery of her choice - or even ordering something and then telling me to pick it up! Meanwhile, I often work ~50 hours a week at my primary job, and then a second casual job on the side because I'd like a shot at owning a house before I'm 50 (probably not going to happen since I don't think she can budget).
Throughout my life I've only ever been physically assaulted on three occasions that I can recall; by a guy at middle school 7th year, and by two different women on different occasions as an adult. I consider the two later incidents to be more serious, in part because I knew it could end in disaster for me if I tried to defend myself. It is my personal experience that women are more prone to violence.
I've also experienced written abuse (vulgar language) in a workplace environment by a colleague who was a women - something I've never experienced from any man in my entire career, despite butting heads over technical work issues with many men on numerous occasions.
On other occasions I've had to be very cautious of words I use in conversations at my workplace because I've angered women who disagree with my opinion to the point where I have triggered complete outrage! If I'm with guys I can simply say "I hate it when..." or "I think such and such of an approach is a waste of time..." but if women are around I sometimes need to say "I prefer not to use X because it didn't really work for me" or something to tip-toe around what I really want to say. It's like I'm living in Japan only I'm not.
So I don't want to hear complaints about a gender gap! I've done my absolute best to be equally respectful to women and men (and I'm certain I'm completely successful in this endeavour wherever humanly possible), but some people just make it so very hard. And incidentally, it often seems to be the ones that complain about gender inequality that cause the most unnecessary drama.
For the record, the people I have had a problem with are in the minority of women I've known. The vast majority of women are great and no issue at all. But if you want to talk about changing attitudes, instead of blaming "legacies", maybe look at other members of your own gender? Yes ideally everyone would treat everyone a person-by-person basis all the time and not care about gender at all, and that's certainly the way I look at people. But if certain women really wanted and expected that from everyone, they would fight for equality instead of feminism wouldn't they?
Maybe there are times when men have it better. I'm not sure as I personally have never noticed witnessing this. I highly doubt there's a gender pay gap in my workplace - a previous female manager even openly joked once that she could fire any of us if she liked due to a promotion. But when women have it better, they have it one hell of a lot better from what I've seen throughout my life. They can get away with things the rest of us wouldn't even consider.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @04:19PM
And having a wife is helping you how? Does she at least let you fuck her at times?