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I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar, Just not at the Olympics
American Thinker.com ^ | June 24, 2021 | Brian C. Joondeph M.D

Posted on 06/24/2021 4:31:23 AM PDT by Kaslin

Helen Reddy sang a Grammy Award-winning hit in 1972 called “I Am Woman,” an ode to the newly blossomed feminist movement. It was a number one song in the US, selling over a million copies.

I am woman, hear me roar

In numbers too big to ignore

And I know too much to go back an’ pretend

What are women going back and pretending about today? How about separate men’s and women’s sports? Remember a time when major sporting competitions, like the Olympic Games, separated men from women, perhaps not in the Olympic Village, but on the track, in the pool, and in the gym.

One time, this was commonsensical as men and women differ greatly in terms of size, strength, and power due to a hormone called testosterone, abundant in growing boys, but not so in girls, leading to higher bone density, larger muscle mass, and more efficient power generation.

In last week’s Olympic Trials, these differences were quite evident. For example, in the 100-meter run, the winning time for men was 9.80 seconds compared to 10.86 seconds for women, a full second, or about 10 percent slower.

In swimming the results were similar. Take the 200-meter breaststroke as one example. The winning men’s time was 2:07.55 compared to 2:21.07 for women, a 14-second difference, again about 10 percent slower.

This is not sexist or misogynistic; instead, it is biology and reality. Except for the left for whom it must mean that evolution (because they don’t believe in God) is sexist.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 06/24/2021 4:31:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 06/24/2021 4:33:14 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Helen wasn’t Reddy to measure up. 36-24-36


3 posted on 06/24/2021 4:49:20 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

I have always hated that song. It makes me want to vomit.


4 posted on 06/24/2021 5:25:53 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: FamiliarFace

For some reason, the song reminds me of the Virginia Slims cigarette commercials with the slogan “you’ve come a long way, baby”.


5 posted on 06/24/2021 5:33:18 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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Ya, it's true. Vimmin are puny and veak.

6 posted on 06/24/2021 5:35:25 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Kaslin

They’ve been roaring for the past hundred years or so. It’s about time they shut up and gave it a rest.


7 posted on 06/24/2021 5:40:41 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Kaslin

Sounds like the East Germans have been vindicated.


8 posted on 06/24/2021 5:41:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

“I Am Woman” was co-wrtten by a man


9 posted on 06/24/2021 5:41:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: FamiliarFace

Here’s the National Lampoon version (with Gilda Radner)

NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HgzXUMQawA


10 posted on 06/24/2021 5:43:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: FamiliarFace

Agreed. And it’s the only song I know of with lyrics that feature the term “embryo”....


11 posted on 06/24/2021 5:47:33 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: a fool in paradise

Much better, thank you.


12 posted on 06/24/2021 5:51:20 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Kaslin

I posted this on Facebook yesterday after being out of FB jail after 30 days. It was clear and innocent but got someone’s panties in a wad.

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I JUST CAN’T STAY OUT OF TROUBLE!
in a discussion of a tranny being in the next Olympics, they claimed it was the first.
I pointed out that a certain very strong political group in central Europe allowed a man to run as a woman in their 1936 Olympics.
I posted a police photo of the man in a dress, and a link to a police photo of the same man nude. You could tell he was no woman.
I just got a notice that this was “against community standards”. and will be blocked. The Facebook Geheime Staatspolizei at work.


13 posted on 06/24/2021 6:26:20 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Kaslin

I am woman hear me roar, the sexual revolution made me a whore.


14 posted on 06/24/2021 6:29:03 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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