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To: Libloather

Women Firefighters: The Gender Boondoggle

http://www.laweekly.com/2008-01-24/news/the-gender-boondoggle/


4 posted on 12/26/2011 3:32:43 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Good post. Article hits it on the head.

Women don’t fail at these things, firefighting, specialized military, NFL football, NBA basketball, etc. because evil white men are conspiring against them.

They fail (even when people are doing everything they can, bending over backwards and changing the physical requirements) because certain activities require more strength, muscle, quickness and brawn than women can muster even for women who are in the top 99.8 percentile of women physically, because: Women are physically different than men.

You hear it all the time: “I knew a woman when I was (INSERT ENVIRONMENT HERE) who could kick the tail of any man at (INSERT TASK HERE).”

It could be anything from shooting sniper rifles to martial arts to lifting cars off of injured people during times of stress.

I don’t doubt that there is always a possibility there is going to be a woman in a given situation who can outperform any guy at hand when it comes to physical tasks. But it won’t always happen.

But what will ALWAYS happen is in any physical situation when the top of the female pyramid is in competition with the top of the male pyramid of talent, women cannot compete. Period. End of story.

And many people HATE to hear that. It is REALITY. Too many people have their reality skewed by watching Hollywood movies where women and men are treated as absolute equals physically. Yeah. That is why the Special Forces in the military are sprinkled with women. That is why there are female linebackers in the NFL.

This issue is going to come up again and again and again. Because people are too politically correct to accept the reality: Women are not physically the same as Men.

Repeat.Women are not physically the same as Men.

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Women are not physically the same as Men.

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Women are not physically the same as Men.

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Women are not physically the same as Men.

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Women are not physically the same as Men.

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Women are not physically the same as Men.

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Women are not physically the same as Men.

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Women are not physically the same as Men.


30 posted on 12/26/2011 4:27:25 PM PST by rlmorel ("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
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