Umm… you weren't the one who posted, "
Posted by BambiB 1 day, 14 hours ago
>> My sister could beat down most men she dates, she is really strong and has high stamina! She is so muscular I used to be jealous, but that is just her body type."??

My response: "Your sister only dated wimps, or your assessment of her strength is grossly overstated."

The average male has 30% (some studies say 50%) more upper body strength than the average female of the same size. Put another way, your sister would have to have 130% normal female strength to reach normal strength levels for an average male her size. In addition, most men are large than most women, further compounding the difference. Given that the average weights for women/men in America is roughly 164 v. 194 pounds, so the average male should be packing an extra 53% more strength. And "beat down" doesn't imply parity. It implies superiority. Another 50%?

Which is more likely? Your sister is TWICE as strong as other women? Or she was dating wimps? Or that you were exaggerating?

You don't mention her being in any special training or taking steroids. (She wasn't an East German weight lifter, was she?) You don't mention martial arts training - and seem to be saying her advantage was strength only.

And yet that seems highly unlikely.

My bet is she was stronger than you. And maybe she dated wimps. But mostly, you just got it wrong.

THAT is a great character name... Quitcher Barking. Sounds like some kind of Australian outback character.

Quitcher barking.

So it's like with dogs. As the master, I get the muzzle, and I put it on the… dog.

Look who's cherry-picking. Connecticut representative of America? Really?

Buy a clue.

Better yet, as a woman, "charge it".

What's irrational about it? In another posting, Maph was talking about an LGBT who used a sperm donor. That's rational, but cloning yourself isn't?
You do realize that in real cloning you get a baby, not a Xerox of yourself at your present age?


Don't be dissin' Mini-Me...

>> My sister could beat down most men she dates, she is really strong and has high stamina! She is so muscular I used to be jealous, but that is just her body type.

Your sister only dated wimps, or your assessment of her strength is grossly overstated.

Did you realize that in cases of domestic violence, women start the altercations almost exactly 50% of the time? It's true. The rates are something like 49.2% v 50.8%. But who winds up with the smashed face, broken bones, skull fractures and such? Usually not the guy.

I'd love to see the 10,000th best MMA (male) fighter take on the world's best woman. He'd kill her. I did hear about some female fighter taking on a guy once though, and winning. IIRC, the guy was a drunk who'd never had any kind of training. Sort of like "bum fights".

Remember these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_t...

Did you know that there's only ONE NCAA sport where men and women compete head-to-head? Can you guess which one?

The problem is the difference in strength is far greater than most people (especially women) realize.

Here's a test you can do yourself.

Pick a half dozen or so sports where success is objectively measurable. Something like time to run 100 meters, or swim 100 meters, or the amount of weight someone can lift, or how far they can throw a discus or a javelin (as opposed to subjective measures like, "how beautifully did the rhythmic gymnast twirl her ribbon?").

Look up the women's WORLD RECORD for the events.

Now pick a state. Any state. Yes, even Alaska or Hawaii. or Delaware. Or Rhode Island. Now look up that states high school male records for the same event. Compare.

When I've done this, in half the cases, the women had better records and in half the cases the boys had better records. This tells me that the very best female athletes of all time, worldwide, are on par with a subset of high school boys living in a relatively small state.

But wait. There are two entire categories of athletes beyond high school. College level and professional.

So now go look up the men's collegiate and world record for each of the events you chose. How do they compare?

Women are so hopelessly outclassed… there is no comparison to be made.

Take the women's versus men world record for the 4x200 freestyle relay. After the men are done beating the women, they could almost get to the locker room and change clothes before the women finish. (6:58.55 v. 7:42.08 ). In marathons, the winner could shower, shave, and be halfway to the airport (2:03:23) before the fastest woman in the world finished the race (2:15:25).

There are lots of examples of this - areas where one wonders why women are so clearly inferior. Why, for example, are they so much slower at running? I don't know. Maybe someone with more knowledge of physiology can explain.

But the forcing of these round pegs into square holes does have consequences. You may not recall the USS Acadia debacle. The actions of the women on board won that ship the sobriquet of "The Love Boat". It seems that between the time the ship received orders to mobilize for the Gulf (Gulf War I) and the time it arrived on station, 10% of the females in the crew managed to get pregnant. Look up the details if you're interested - but pregnancy has become the "rip cord" women use to bail out of uncomfortable or potentially dangerous service. Can you imagine being a commander and having 10% of your crew disabled before the first shot is fired?

Equal pay for equal work?

Then there's the case of the IG team inspecting the base observing that the women were able to load ammo cans on trucks much faster and with apparent ease compared to the men doing the same task. This puzzled the inspectors, until they discovered that the women were loading EMPTY containers. It seems the base commander was stuck between the political imperative that women be seen as "succeeding" and the reality that they could not do the job they were assigned.

The book, "Weak Link" details dozens of ways that women in the military have weakened the force, complete with long lists of lies and fraud about how "well" the women are doing. If a requirement is "too difficult" for women to do, then the requirement is modified or eliminated. Better that a wounded man be stranded, dying on the battlefield than we deny a woman the right to find out first hand that she's too weak to drag him to safety.