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  1. If one is a Trans, trapped in a male body, one could shave one’s legs, pad one’s pectorals, put on a tutu and have at it, to great effect. Except of course in flexibility, which may be a psycho-social female feature as well as a physical one.

  2. Men are far more fit for tasks requiring strength and speed than women. 73 years ago thousand of young American, British, and Canadian men died on the beaches of Normandy. Many thousands more would die or be wounded in the days ahead. As a social experiment lets bring back the draft, but for females only and see how well that works… but nah, that would destroy the narrative of the pussy hat brigade.

  3. I have a friend who runs a dance school. For one recital, the senior piece was danced from “Bolero”. I asked where she managed to recruit so many linebackers. She said she got the girls to recruit their boyfriends.
    She said they didn’t “dance”. They were taught to “partner”, and she asked if I had wondered. I hadn’t.
    IMO, they could take that act on the road with its implicit sexuality being obvious, if you can have obvious implicit.

  4. Story in a CT paper where a freshmen boy ran in the girl’s 100 at the State track meet. I think he won even though only a frosh. He identified as a girl. Much bigger arms and legs.

  5. vanderleun:

    Well, there certainly would be women skaters and gymnasts.

    Another reason they have women’s events is that a lot of people actually enjoy the women’s events, because it adds to their viewing pleasure.

  6. Hips. My daughter who is a physical therapist and sports medicine graduate talked about the effect of he female hip structure on women athletes a long time ago. Turns out that women are much more prone to knee ligament damage when playing such sports as soccer. There are exercises that girls can do to reduce the risk; unfortunately, not too many youth coaches seem to include them in training. Don’t know about high school and college, but my grand daughter’s teams always seemed to have a higher than normal incidence of injury.

    Grand son and his twin sister ran track in high school and he runs track and cross country in college. The stop watch tells the tale.

  7. The feminists claim there are no differences between males and females. Then they spend all their time complaining about male behavior and how they are being oppressed by the evil male patriarchy.

  8. Why do men run faster than women?

    Because they wouldn’t be able to catch one otherwise?

    Woman will change her mind at a moments notice and run off.

    Or maybe it’s my breath.

  9. As a recent addition to the ranks of MAMILs, it’s very clear from perusing Strava rankings that male and female athletic abilities are two separate distributions.

    Pretty much old hat, but of course becoming more and more dangerous to say it in these insane times.

    Differing biomechanics, biochemistry, larger male chest cavities –> greater VO2Max… must be a whole lot of reasons. And of course none of it matters as long as we stay sane and realise that men and women are different and tend to excel at different things. Nothing wrong with a woman pursuing excellence in (say) cycling… she’s going to be able to thrash some of the left tail men if that amuses her.. ultimately true happiness comes from excellence and doing the best with what one has, not in pointless raging at things baked in by evolution.

  10. Women’s hips are as they are for the same reason that baby humans are born far more “premature” than other primates: it’s a tradeoff between ordinary survival and the particular adaptations that make humanity so very good at survival. Babies’ heads are as big as they can possibly be without killing their mothers (every time) during birth, and women’s hips are as wide as they can be without making them unable to walk upright. Neither of these things is ideal on its own: babies would be better off if they could be more, well, finished when born, and women would be better off with narrower hips.

    I’m so glad (as a woman with hips and three very healthy children) that recent science is saying that vaginal birth is important for inoculating babies with the proper microbiome, because otherwise my kind would probably go extinct now that we can do Caesarians so reliably. Now, if we start doing C-sections followed by fecal transplants or something, then I despair.

  11. In my grade school only two girls were rather athletic. They took their sports seriously where one girl’s father ran marathons. They had the best endurance in a group of 20 girls. On the boys side all of the starters on the basketball team ran the annual mile under seven minutes. The two girls probably could’ve kept up with them, but physically they were of little match.

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