This just in, science says women actually have the same physical strength as men. In other news, science still says men are inherently bad. Thank you, Motherboard, for redefining "science".

EsraYmssik · 2017-06-22T17:56:01+00:00

On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, science journalist Angela Saini read their research and was filled with a pure and clarifying rage.

Love the language. Her anger was pure and clarifying, not at all irrational, it was positive and transformative... totally unlike, I presume, mens' anger.

It's good to hear that a science journalist can see the glaring error in modern science, an error that has somehow escaped the notice of EVERY scientist (male and female) for the last few centuries.

Rasalom72 · 2017-06-22T18:38:32+00:00

This is great! We should be jumping on this and pointing to it in order to remove those pesky lowered requirements for women when joining the military/ police/ firefighters/ etc.

"Science" says women have the same physical strength.... so why the different standards?

-redditardation- · 2017-06-22T18:45:41+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_records_in_weightlifting

Well that was easy enough.

And because I'm a dick and like to rub it in:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-only-two-of-the-world-s-top-100-chess-players-women

lukmeg · 2017-06-22T20:48:58+00:00

In case someone wants to skip all the blablabla, this is the meat of the argument as to why men seem stronger but are not:

explaining that the reason they might be faster, or have more upper body strength, is because they're able to put more energy into body mass—energy that women direct into menstruation and childbirth.

Its all about "the energy" people, you just have to relocate your energy accordingly. Hormones and other biological shit is just a patriarchal conspiracy I guess, testosterone might be a social construct. Thanks feminist science.

Lumberingfeather · 2017-06-22T18:32:20+00:00

So does that mean we should take women's violence seriously then, and treat abusive females as dangerous rather than as a joke? Excellent, when do the men's shelters open?

Rabid_Pink_Princess · 2017-06-22T19:02:30+00:00

I believe this was a fake, it's so fucking stupid. It's not apparently

Now, we are stronger than men. So if feminists are right about patriarchy (and they aren't) men managed to oppresing us with it cause they are more intelligent and superior in many ways? Will they explain how it went?

xNOM · 2017-06-22T19:33:09+00:00

Handily, studying literature gave me a critical mind—able to dissect the fresh bullshit the McMaster trio were peddling, and unpick it analytically. Thanks, literature! And Inferior is a book that needed to be written; it's just remarkable that it took this long to arrive.

ROFL. She discovered a loophole. Fuck that mathematics shit, just read some "stories." Instant science genius.

HeForeverBleeds · 2017-06-22T20:37:04+00:00

It's simple: women are stronger when they want to make a point about female superiority, but they're weaker when they want to play the victim and say female victims are more vulnerable and female abusers are less dangerous

Basically, whatever benefits them at the time is what they'll find "evidence" to support

fengpi · 2017-06-22T22:20:32+00:00

Women are actually the same height as men. The problem is that the metric and imperial systems of measurement are both biased in favor of men, making it appear as if men are taller.

To correct this, we need a feminist-approved system of flexible and context-appropriate measurement in which length can change depending upon the needs of the situation. If and when it suits a woman to say she is eight feet tall, or if she feels she is eight feet tall, then she will be eight feet tall. Also, the legal definition of "midget" should change to apply to men only, regardless of how tall.

Also, a day should be as long or as short as a woman's needs dictate. Maybe Monday needs to be 10 hours long while Saturdays and Sundays should be 40 hours long. The rest of you peasants can plod-along in your quaintly obsolete 24-hour days (hah!).

devious29 · 2017-06-22T20:21:28+00:00

Unsurprisingly, it's usually scientists who self-perpetuate this myth of science as infallible.

Oh ffs, no they don't. they perpetuate the truth that science (or at least the hard sciences) are self-correcting. It's a system where things that aren't consistent with reality are tweaked or outright scrapped and replaced by things that are regardless of how many sacred cows go on the barbecue in the process.

Handily, studying literature gave me a critical mind

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't even comprehend doing, write about others.

Aivias · 2017-06-22T20:38:35+00:00

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/men-are-stronger-than-women-on-average/

Every now and then there is a debate on who is more “anti-science”, the Left or the Right. I’m not too interested in the details of that, but, a few years ago I expressed my skepticism to Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, that liberals were somehow reflexively more “pro-science.” I suggested to him, for example, that when it comes to aspects of the biological basis of human behavior, with the exception of homosexual orientation, liberals are highly resistant to accepting any differences across groups because of their adherence to social constructionism. Chris brushed this off, suggesting that the “science wars” were over, and even when it came to evolutionary psychology (broadly construed) the liberal Left had conceded to the best evidence on hand. I was not moved, because I’ve had years of exchange with many liberal Left folk who defy Chris’ assurance to me. This is most notable when it comes to sex differences, which are usually seen as less controversial, and evolutionarily should have some prior expectation due to dimorphism.

To give a concrete example of how far this goes, there are many liberal Left people who won’t even accede to the proposition that men are, on average, stronger in terms of upper body strength than women. A few years ago this came up on social media, where a friend who has a biology background from an elite university, even expressed skepticism at this, when I was trying to get her to be open to behavioral differences between the sexes by starting with something I thought she would at least agree with as reasonable. When I saw the lack of unequivocal acceptance of this point I decided to opt out of the conversation. This was basically face to face with Left Creationism.

This is not to say that people are totally in denial. Rather, the standard educated tack by those with progressive tendencies kicks in. There are “problematic” terms which need to be “contextualized,” and “difference” needs to be considered as an expression of socially preferred categories and measurement. After the critical theory verbiage is hurled usually sane people want to run out of the room.

TheDongerNeedsFood · 2017-06-23T01:26:11+00:00

TIL that the natural production of large amounts of testosterone is a social construct.

2017-06-22T19:57:35+00:00

Such horse shit. Btw i stopped reading when i saw the Cosby comparison.

rg57 · 2017-06-23T00:01:52+00:00

And the reason why women go through the menopause and continue to thrive, living longer lives than men? It's not because they're ugly and unattractive: it's because we need them.

TIL we don't need young women, except to the extent they pop out babies, and then become old.

I'm so glad I got rid of the scientific bullshit, and now have just the truth.

Ted8367 · 2017-06-23T02:11:56+00:00

It's a solemn occasion, the Birth of a new Fact. They all start like this, or mostly. Soon it will be cited in other articles. Interesting to track.

aussietoads · 2017-06-23T06:41:11+00:00

Nothing is stronger than group delusion. Except perhaps Spongebob Squarepants.

wilwarland · 2017-06-23T13:10:16+00:00

Unsurprisingly, it's usually scientists who self-perpetuate this myth of science as infallible. After all, it helps justify their untouchable status in society, a status as exalted as the one that Bill Cosby enjoyed until relatively recently.

What the fuck does Bill Cosby have to do with anything?

ThePigmanAgain · 2017-06-23T00:31:04+00:00

I can't even bother reading it. I mean, i warm up with weights that the women at my gym can't even do a one rep max with!

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