On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:07:12 GMT, Spectre  wrote:

>They're good at long distance swimming - because they have built in 
>floatation devices.



Yeah, women might be competitive with men in long distance swimming
for that reason.

But your post implied that you had a plethora of examples on the tip
of your tongue.



>Grizzlie Antagonist wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:20:40 GMT, Spectre  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Yeah thats where you really see the difference - women have much weaker 
>>>arms. Basketball, football, rugby, Softball - they all look pathetic 
>>>when throwing. These are men's games, fine tuned for men, the size of 
>>>the field, the rules were created for men.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You and others seem to be implying that if women designed and
>> fine-tuned sports, it would be possible to conceive of a sport where
>> women excelled over men.
>> 
>> But sports are all about size, strength, stamina, speed, etc.  What
>> sort of sport could women design that would enable them to excel over
>> men?
>> 
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>> 
>> grizzlieantagonist{at}yahoo.com
>> 
>> "Ladies and gentlemen - let's have a round of applause for
tonight's player of the game - FRAN-CIS-CO SAN-N-N-N-TOS!
>>     - Brian Anthony (P.A. announcer at Grizzlie Stadium), June 11, 2004
>> 
>> 
>> "Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to
their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in
proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion
as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and
presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the
counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. 
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be
placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must
be without.  It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men
of intemperate minds cannot be free.  Their passions forge their
fetters."
>>      
>>      - Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)



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grizzlieantagonist{at}yahoo.com

"Ladies and gentlemen - let's have a round of applause for tonight's
player of the game - FRAN-CIS-CO SAN-N-N-N-TOS!
    - Brian Anthony (P.A. announcer at Grizzlie Stadium), June 11, 2004


"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their
disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as
their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their
soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and
presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the
counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. 
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be
placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must
be without.  It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men
of intemperate minds cannot be free.  Their passions forge their
fetters."
     
     - Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)


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