From a related article:
“But even with roughly uniform levels of fitness, the males’ average power during a punching motion was 162% greater than females’, with the least-powerful man still stronger than the most powerful woman. Such a distinction between genders, Carrier says, develops with time and with purpose.”
Why males pack a powerful punch
Upper arm strength, different from females’, may have specialized for forceful blows
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200205132404.htm
How many women are defensive linemen in the NFL?
This is so complicated! (/S)
Uh yea the intellectual destitution is the biological advantages of the testosterone up to that point don’t just disappear.
Right...
So when I go to the gym and work out with 5 or 10 pound weights while my male colleagues work out with 40 pound weights, that is not an indication that men have biological advantages over women.
As far as physical strength, men are much stronger than women. This is why I have a husband, he will pick up those heavy things I can’t manage.
Women do have physical advantages over men in terms of health. At every age, starting from conception, males die at a higher rate than females. For every 100 girls born, there are 105 to 110 boys born. But in nursing homes, women outnumber men.
Yuan should watch a few episodes of “American Ninja Warrior” ...
Perhaps all the males in the test demographic were Harvard males?
And for some odd reason, they think of themselves as the smartest people on the planet.
Fake, Gay, and DIEing of AIDS
The year we realized the universities can’t be saved, and shouldn’t be.
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/fake-gay-and-dieing-of-aids
Well in that case we don't need women's sports at all. We'll just have "sports" where anyone can try out and the best are picked without respect to sex. Bet you they would look like the men's teams.
Yuan claims studies that show men have biological advantages over women in sports aren't conclusive, because of small number of test subjects.
Any bets on they picked such a small test pool just to be unable to prove the hypothesis that men are stronger, much like flipping a coin once and getting heads will not prove the coin has two heads. Flip it a hundred times and get heads every time and you'll start getting statistically valid results.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Romans 1:22-25
Only sport I know of where women are really equal to men is smallbore offhand target shooting. Some coaches have said women are actually better.
In my ten-year career as a motorcycle road racer, I knew a woman who was pretty good.
Women make pretty good pilots, too.
But track and field, swimming, soccer, football, ice hockey, etc......nope.
Well, I can see why people think this. Used to be kids fought on the playground and learned over time that girls just don’t have what boys have in the way of upper body strength, arm reach, and all this other stuff.
But now kids are not allowed to fight, so they don’t learn that.
Instead they learn from TV that women beat up men 24/7. I first noticed this in the Matrix, back in the 1990s, but it had been going on for longer than that.
Watch NCIS Hawaii: unbelievable! And the sound they add for the women’s punches are just as loud as for the men’s.
And the good guys are hardly ever knocked out, and everyone is ok afterwards: very few black eyes for instance.
I think most women would be seriously injured when punched in the face by a bad guy...
They have to take the position that it’s unclear if males have an advantage. Because if they were to admit that males did have an advantage then they would have to take the position that males should not be competing in female sports.
But the liberal view is that we are supposed to treat these transgender people as if they are real women.
And the liberal view is that if you have any doubts about all this transgender business , you are some kind of Neanderthal bigot. And people on the Harvard Crimson Could not ever admit that they agree with Neanderthal bigots about anything.
Judging from what I have read lately about Harvard’s standards, ‘twould appear that their Med School teaches phrenology and the Physics Dept has a course on Astrology - should their standards be as low as that of their President and the majority of their lib (f)arts clown students.
Has Haaa-Vvaaarrrddd extinguished all of its STEM Depts?
It's not a matter of who is "superior" to whom. Men can't get pregnant and bring new human life into this world, and that's pretty darned important and should be immensely valued. What is the ability to throw a javelin further or pole vault higher compared to that?
That said, my father's PhD was in kinesiology (the study of human motion) and he was an expert in sports physiology and biomechanics. From many conversations we had I'm sure he would stridently disagree with any notion that the science is unsettled in this area.
With all this talk about male vs. female strength, I haven’t seen reaction time discussed. Over the years I have acquired the impression that men are much quicker than women.
I get so sick of this. It is ignorance at the peak.of stupidity. Cardiac output and lung volumes are higher in men than women. Studies show that man retain a 5% greater strength advantage in men after transition than women. The British sports council studied this and concluded ,” you can be fair, or you can be inclusive, you can’t be both”.