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To: OldGoatCPO

but they can beat up all the guys in the movies!


45 posted on 11/29/2021 10:03:52 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: bankwalker; OldGoatCPO
"...but they can beat up all the guys in the movies!"

Unfortunately, there is something to that post of yours which is pooh-poohed as being irrelevant, but it isn't.

The average woman without training is no physical match for an average man without training. There are always individual women with training and conditioning, but...if you put them in a contest with a male who has equal training and commensurate conditioning, again, it will be no match.

And at the top of the physical pyramid, NFL stars, Special Forces in the Military, there are no women anywhere who can physically match up with them. The top 25% of the physical pyramid is inhabited by men.

The danger inherent in this is two-fold: First, is that this irrational Hollywood image of women being a match for men in every physical endeavor is imbued in young females, who, instead of conducting their activities appropriately think they can put themselves in situations they can physically fight their way out of. I am less careful about when and where I walk somewhere (whether carrying or not) than my wife is. She won't walk alone in various areas at various times of the day, and rather than brand her as weak or afraid, I see her as intelligent, realistic, and prepared. She is absolutely correct to have this mindset. But females are being encouraged to disregard this fundamental mindset. I view that disregard as being akin to stepping out into a crosswalk and thinking any vehicle is going to stop because you have "the right of way. It is foolhardy in both cases.

The second danger is that policymakers invest their policies in the fantasies they see from Hollywood. I believe this is destroying our military. It isn't going to end well.

55 posted on 11/29/2021 10:42:20 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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