Ed Koch said it best: “I don’t care what sex a firefighter is, as long as they can carry a 200 pound mayor out of a burning building.” In other words, screw diversity, celebrate competence.
Firefighter is just one of those professions where bigger and stronger is better. That’s reality, and reality doesn’t care about diversity, political correctness, or feelings.
Good news for the little people is that there are other professions where smaller and lighter is better - helicopter pilot, submarine crew, etc.
Ed Koch is evil, but he often makes sense. This is one of those times.
Have there been any lawsuits against fire departments for deploying people (i.e., women) who were unable to save people’s lives because of insufficient physical strength?
Remember the video that Rush showed on his TV show of the affirmative-action firefemales collapsing under the weight of ladders, hoses, and people they were attempting to carry?
I have a nephew and a brother-in-law that are
Denver Firemen.
Those are the MEN you want to show up when you need it.
I’m 6’3’,and 210 pounds.
There are no women that I know that could get me out of a building or a foxhole if needed.
Can you imagine a boomer with a 100% female crew? I think the whole world would behave a little bit better knowing they were out there somewhere.
That's why Socialism, along with it's attendant ancillary cancers such as Diversity! and political correctness, has as one of it's primary goals the elimination of reality. An economic system that fails because it's most basic tenets conflict in profound ways with the very most basic elements of human nature must forcibly construct it's own artificial reality in order to survive.