Article Claims There Is Little Gender Differences And That Women Are Physically Superior

gnuckols · 2015-01-13T20:08:40+00:00

Well, I can tell by the title the link was shared with that the point of the article was missed entirely.

So, just a basic recap:

Yes, there are strong trends for different size/strength/body composition between sexes. That's not even debateable. I'm not sure where the "article claims there is little gender differences" came from. It's acknowledged twice in the first few paragraphs.
Nowhere did I say that women tend to be as strong as men. The claim was about strength per unit muscle mass. Which, again, is a very uncontroversial claim. It's basic muscle physiology. A bigger muscle is a stronger muscle, regardless of sex. Yes, men tend to have bigger muscles, so they tend to be stronger. The article does not contest that point at all.
The fact that women tend to have better metabolic health isn't a very contentious one either. Better insulin sensitivity, lower rates of metabolic disease, faster triglyceride and VLDL clearance, etc. Again, that's a trend. Not a claim that every woman has better metabolic health than every man (just as there was no claim that every man is stronger than every woman).

Blutarg · 2015-01-13T19:40:45+00:00

LOL! "It's not that men are stronger, it's that men are bigger and have more muscles, and that's what makes them stronger, not being men!"

fuxorfly · 2015-01-13T19:31:47+00:00

That means if a man and woman have the same size muscles, they should have roughly the same strength.

This just in - if mice were the size of elephants, they would eat cats instead of the other way around! If whales had legs, they would walk on land and eat plants! Words have no meaning! Cats and dogs, living together!

qemist · 2015-01-13T21:33:21+00:00

Good. Now we can cancel affirmative action and accommodations for women.

TheDongerNeedsFood · 2015-01-13T22:13:15+00:00

Well, since women are better metabolically suited than men for pretty much everything, I can't wait for the day when police departments, fire departments, the military, and construction companies consist almost exclusively of women.

adequate_potato · 2015-01-14T05:02:53+00:00

This is so dumb. It's basically saying, "fitness depends on body composition and hormones (which are determined by gender), but not on gender! Besides the things that make men and women fundamentally different, men and women are the same!"

ukreview · 2015-01-13T20:25:46+00:00

this is totally counter to the whole women in the army debate, where we know for a fact women can't cope with the training. I don't get what the article writer's point is.

PeteyMax · 2015-01-13T21:00:56+00:00

When I was in college I used to ski competitively. I was pretty bad: one of the slowest skiers in the circuit. Thing is, had I competed with the women, I would've done respectably, probably in the top half in most races and I likely would've even picked up a couple of medals.

FlyingSkyWizard · 2015-01-13T21:41:56+00:00

Good facts, bad conclusions, sure, pound for pound, female muscle is about as strong as male muscle, but men have twice as much of it, that's like saying a 4 cylinder engine has as much torque as a v8 because they're both engines,

"the difference in torque is entirely due to the engine composition, each cylinder produces the same amount of force"

Also he neglects to mention how much easier it is for men to build and maintain muscle due to testosterone.

JohnGalt316 · 2015-01-14T03:29:17+00:00

you guys are getting trolled with the "women are better metabolically suited for everything"

metabolic issues like diabetes only are a concern if you are unhealthy for many years. for low bodyfat individuals, men are superior because they have the glycolytic advantage over women for superior bursts of strength and speed. also, a woman's insulin sensitivity advantage runs out at menopause.

btw, the author's theory of women being better at long distances because of superior lipid metabolism is broscience.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870311/pdf/cln-69-01-038.pdf

here is a study of all the 24 hour ultramarathon results which has men still beating women.

Frittern · 2015-01-13T20:57:57+00:00

Most of the major differences in performance and metabolism between genders can be explained by size and body composition, not gender itself.

What a bunch of crap!! As if sex development and hormones have nothing to do with body size and composition..Give a fucking prepubescent girl testosterone or prepubescent male estrogen and then block their native hormones.That's what SEX IS it's the fucking definig characteristic of sex..It changes the body size and composition in whole and in different regions of the body..

Fucking political quasi science double speech idiocy! Only a obtuse reality challenged humanities/gender studies idiot would buy into this tripe. Oh wait maybe some health and fitness fucktard that never took a 200 level anatomy or physiology course might get confused..

ajXoejw · 2015-01-13T22:22:50+00:00

Great, another "there's nothing good about men" article.

I'd really love to know why the author thinks men evolutionarially still exist at all. Women make babies, and they're better at anything else. Why aren't we just like those species of fish where the males are basically just tiny sacs of sperm that impregnate a female and then die?

I'm guessing patriarchy and rape are the reasons why men's athletics are superior to women's.

ManRAh · 2015-01-13T20:35:50+00:00

Misleading title, but the article is actually pretty bad. His science sounds good, but a lot of his conclusions are pretty bad.

Example: Men have greater visceral / subcutaneous fat ratio, and he claims this is a bad thing. Googling the topic calls this into question, but I'm willing to go with it. True or not, visceral fat is very important as it acts as a protective barrier between your organs, and between those organs and your bones. As far as I'm aware, these visceral fat stores are less likely to be accessed as an energy source, and thus one of the last fat stores to go. Thus, leaner men have naturally higher Visc / Subcut fat ratios. If women access these fat stores more easily, this is actually potentially detrimental to their health when in very lean states.

exo762 · 2015-01-13T22:16:31+00:00

I love how title uses word gender when meaning sex.

Turtle_Color_Accents · 2015-01-14T06:58:01+00:00

This must be why the Olympics aren't co-ed and women outperform men in every event...oh wait...

TomwaIvory · 2015-01-15T10:31:53+00:00

Dumb thread, baseless stupidity.

"Women and men aren't different, except when they're different. Oh and hormones but that's not because of gender."

Author must literally have a degree in being an imbecile. Have a down vote for failing to use archive.to

Akesgeroth · 2015-01-14T06:10:11+00:00

Downvoted for not using donotlink. Stop giving views go clickbait bullshit.

Title	Article Claims There Is Little Gender Differences And That Women Are Physically Superior
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Date	January 13, 2015 7:25 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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