Marines delay female fitness plan after half fail

Boethias · 2014-01-03T04:22:36+00:00

Because the change is being put off, women will be able to choose which test of upper-body strength they will be graded on in their annual physical fitness test. Their choices:

—Pullups, with three the minimum. Three is also the minimum for male Marines, but they need 20 for a perfect rating.

—A flexed-arm hang. The minimum is for 15 seconds; women get a perfect score if they last for 70 seconds. Men don't do the hang in their test.

Maybe they should have the right to choose how strong an enemy they have to face in actual combat as well.

noprotein · 2014-01-03T05:04:14+00:00

this seems kinda dumb, if they don't make the cut they don't make the cut. give them the same standards as men and the ones that qualify can join. Is this stupidity or am I just oversimplifying?

Collective82 · 2014-01-03T06:33:23+00:00

You know having been to The Island I saw female recruits when I was there. Shit they seemed to be at summer camp while we were suckin in the muck. If they want the standards to be the same, maybe they should train the same?

2014-01-03T13:05:37+00:00

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/01/2-to-3-standard-deviation-gap-in-pull.html

You've probably heard that the Obama Administration's demand to put women in combat has stumbled upon only 45% of females at the end of Marines boot camp being able to do the minimum required three pull-ups. That's compared to 99% of men, which suggests a z-score difference of two to three standard deviations.

The Marines have always been a public relations juggernaut so they had the cojones to release this data, but they're still going to give in to the zeitgeist and change the requirements for women. But I doubt if they'll actually have many women storm the beaches, just as none of the 343 firepersons who died on 9/11 were women, and nobody has ever seemed to have a problem with that.

Eventually, a couple of decades from now, feminists will be shocked, shocked to discover that women in combat units aren't actually being sent into ground battles with packs full of depleted uranium ammunition, they're just being handed iPads and told to keep track of stuff while the men go do the fighting. This will cause a big hubbub in 2032 and eventually most of the women officers on combat-watching duty will be given promotions, and then the subject will disappear down the memory hole until it becomes the feminist brouhaha of 2052 and then 2072. Democrats have to win elections, you know.

As I pointed out in 1997, if America is serious about narrowing this Gap, the obvious solution is steroids, lots and lots of steroids. If women don't have enough natural male hormones to validate your theories, then just shoot them up with artificial male hormones.

2014-01-03T15:19:47+00:00

Might be a silly question but what is the failure rate for men? Imagine it is pretty high to. Being a marine is not an easy thing.

Hirudin · 2014-01-03T16:42:46+00:00

I'd be pissed if I was in the half that passed.

thepower99 · 2014-01-03T04:19:21+00:00

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Dealbreaker-Jones · 2014-01-03T13:48:41+00:00

Not really "men's rights" probably better posted in /r/theredpill

Stephen1985 · 2014-01-03T04:49:53+00:00

I dont believe they cant do 3 push ups, im a 22 stond fat bastard and I can atleast bang out 10

Title	Marines delay female fitness plan after half fail
Author	dave-gonzo
Upvotes	85
Comments	43
Date	January 3, 2014 12:25 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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