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Shimmergloom's avatar

Point of Order:

It is not a fraternity prank. A fraternity prank is stealing the other fraternity's cannon and driving it across the country to your fraternity (Yes, these are pencil-necked geeks).

It is instead fraternity hazing. A nigh-on impossible job you give to Frosh to test their dedication. (The principle of hazing is solid, the US Military uses it in Boot Camp, esp. the Marines. What's doesn't work is letting somewhat drunk college students decide what "hazing" is.)

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Jay Moore's avatar

Just another way in which Jeff’s Evergreen State College education was deficient.

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Seth McClure's avatar

Fabulous. One missing tidbit from the Monty Python clip: Ron’s jump had been sponsored by a brick company.

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Ira Bloomgarden's avatar

Really a click bait topic. The essence of being a human being is the capacity of one gender to push a newborn with a grotesquely large head through a birth canal shaped by an odd pelvic structure. Anatomy is destiny. Also for men, but more in terms of sexual performance. Not a popular subject here. Besides any decent female college athlete will destroy an ordinary guy in most sports.

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Shimmergloom's avatar

Not in soccer. In soccer, the olympic female athletes regularly lose to the under-15 age category. (they do this for training purposes).

Women's soccer needs to have the field resized, or something.

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Esme Fae's avatar

It just baffles me that people can say this with a straight face. I can only assume that they have never played a sport or done any physical activity in their lives.

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Shimmergloom's avatar

A physically fit woman can pass the army training regimen. Can carry 50lbs loads on a 5k. Can do the pullups and pushups and all that.

She's not going to be the best in the regiment, no way no how. But she'll be fine.

Goes double if you give her some testosterone (and the Dems seem fit to pretend that the androgens they're giving for F2M aren't doing anything psychological. Pull the other one, nitwits).

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Bwhilders's avatar

You can’t even talk about this at cocktail parties. It really sucks. Why read at all?

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Robert G.'s avatar

>They seem to think it’s mean to admit that the average man is bigger, stronger, and faster than the average woman

This is nitpicking, but the debate is actually about comparing above-average men and women, not average people. Referencing average people, like you do here, leads to another talking point that female athletes are more fit than the average man. Another commentor even brings that up:

>Besides any decent female college athlete will destroy an ordinary guy in most sports.

Of course, it is also true that elite men are much stronger than elite women. But someone like Adam Conover would probably latch onto your sentence about average people as a way to dismiss your thoughts on the differences between elite men and elite women.

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Brian Erb's avatar

I hear this in running too and it just ignores the fact that in swimming and running, the best men aren’t doing this silly non-renumerative ultra-distance exercise addiction/cult hobby stuff. The best male ultramarathoners are like 20 minutes slower at the marathon than elites. Female ultra athletes are passable at the longer standard distances The men doing these sports have big fish in small pond syndrome.

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