On 14 Mar 2005 11:39:23 -0800, "Hyerdahl"  wrote:

>
>GL Fowler wrote:
>> On 14 Mar 2005 08:18:38 -0800, maceanruig{at}astound.net wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Lee wrote:
>
>> >> >Having engaged for many years in a sport where men and women
>compete
>> >> >equally I can tell you that it mostly just ain't so. Men are
>> >stronger.
>
>Men have greater upper body strength and size.  Women have better
>developed lower body musculature and they use that when they do
>kickboxing kinds of sports.  



Women don't have "better developed lower body musculature", Puke, or
they would run faster than men.

Do you seriously imagine that kickboxing is segregated by gender to
protect the MEN?


>AND, men have longer arms and legs and
>greater lung capacity than women.  So, where women and men are
>similarly situated, they compete together, but where they are not, they
>need not, to make sure everyone gets an equal opportunity.
>
>
>> >> >They aren't particularly faster.
>> >>
>> >> You are delusional.  Men are faster, on average, than women.  All
>(a
>> >> rare occaision when I use the word 'all') men's world track and
>field
>> >> records for the Marathon and shorter are significantly less than
>the
>> >> women's.
>
>Again, men's greater lung capacity and longer legs allow for greater
>speed; it's just a matter of physi
>> >
>> >No, I'm not delusional. The point was about reflexes, not about
>racing
>> >speed.
>
>Right, and women have smaller hands enabling them to do fine motor
>skills better and some say, women have greater endurance, burning
>calories more efficiently.  


That old wives' tale still makes the rounds, but men hold all or
almost all of the endurance records in weight-bearing sports and most
of the endurance records in swimming.


>Who knows?   In the meantime they all play
>sports.


A female athlete scarcely qualifies as a "woman" anyway.   They're
really androgynous flat-chested man-hating robots.



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