Thanatos Savehn reminded be of this Atlantic piece from a decade ago: “The Truth About Little Women Carrying Big Wounded Men in Combat”, by somebody using the name Elspeth Reeve.
50 odd years ago, I trained as a fireman.(Gave it up, being a fireman, with virtually no fires is really boring) However, part of the training is to carry a person (around 180lbs) down a turntable ladder from 90 ft to the ground. I had no problem bringing down my carry but almost refused to get on someone else's shoulders to be carried down. 90 Feet is a hell of a way to fall if the other cannot make it or loses his grip. There is no way on earth that a woman could carry me down that ladder.
Next exercise is to crawl 50 ft in a smoke filled building wearing full breathing apparatus and pulling a body on a harness around your neck and between your legs.
Yet today they insist that women can become firefighters, yes but only if the fires are really small and no one needs to be rescued.
Since 1961 the "Parabats" have held selection trials. In the last 20 years they have allowed women to try. Not a single woman has passed the physical selection process.
misogynist? let's go with realist. thanks for the front line report of the rigors of the job and the reality of the silliness of thinking that a 128 lb chick can shoulder a 190 (or more) lb anyone down a ladder. the word picture is chilling. also for reminding us that MOST "firefighters" attend very few fires yearly. in my 'hood the number is 1 every two years. time to stop using the term perhaps
“How can adults possibly be this unaware of the overwhelming physical differences between men and women?”
Adults (at least those with even a small endowment of intellectual maturity) are not unaware. Mental children are capable of living all kinds of fantasy that are wholly inconsistent with reality. At least for a while, until their delusions run them into a wall.
When I was a real boy ("Blessings on thee little man, barefoot boy with cheek of tan...") and this was a free country, the incipient female army of crypto fantasists waged a stealth war against male realists. The women fought incrementally and with psychological subtlety. Like Operation Fortitude, Patton's fake plywood army, the feminine crypto invaders camoflauged their real invasion so as to sneak up unawares on their enemies, real masculine men and toxic masculinity. Subtlety and tentativeness were early military strategies of the fantasist lady invaders, adopted so as not to alert and alarm America's defenders of masculine reality that they are under siege. Otherwise, our Paul Revere guys might have called the nation's real American men to arms, "The Whacky Lady Weirdos Are Coming! The Whacky Lady Weirdos Are Coming!" "By land, by sea and over the TV!" "Eeek, they're in our beds!"
Gone are the days of white wine by the bottle and pink roses by the dozen. Now it's whiskey by the barrel and hedgerows of thorn. Subtle incrementalism in the War of Female Delusion Against Male Reality was replaced by the raucous audacity of Ladies Operation Overlord. Amphibious armies of academic, political and cultural femi-nazis ("FN's") have stormed ashore, set up beacheads, and launched blitzkrieg against reality's disinformation. The FN's have fact-checked and found wanting the outdated (pre 19th Amendment,) sexist notion that men can do anything which requires brains, muscle, planning, coordination, athleticism, and skill, let alone actually do it better than women. (On June 6, 1944, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Womens Army Corps, it seems, would have been faster and deadlier than Ike and the Boys of Point du Hoch and Omaha Beach.)
In the novus ordo seclorum, men are not fearless but feckless, mere Homer and Bart Simpsons to be told by Marge, Lisa and Edna Krabappel what to do, how and when to do it, and to be led in doing it by their Ellen Degeneris, Jane Fonda and Joey Behar "Betters Who Do It Better." Society is to be ruled and run by its latter day ubermensch, those who identify as female, bisexual, or sign up for the growing army of trans women recruits. (Now we know the answer to Dr. Doolittle's question, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" They can, and they're better at it. In fact check, men make the best women.)
Passing shot: note that in today's ubiquitous action hero movies and TV series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, et cetera females are often deadly Jamey Bonds possesed of "particular skills" with which to chase down, run over, outrun, shoot dead, and stab, club, kick box and strangle to death slower, weaker, clumsy, real men bad guys (with their six-pack abs, oak tree arms, and race horse legs,) who outsize the good guy gals (by 8-10 inches) and outweigh them (by 90-110 pounds) with excess, needless height, girth and muscle, which slow the real men bad guys down and weaken them.
So much for the Spartan masculinity of Roman warriors. And why do we bother even to call it "toxic?"
The covert influence campaign to convince Normals that women are the equals of men in combat kicked off with 1997's "GI Jane:"
"When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the US Navy's elite SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. LT. Jordan O'Neill is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Neill is determined to prove everyone wrong."
This was about the same time that the US president in every Hollywood movie was black.
Covert influence works wonders. It's much more powerful than overt rhetorical convincing (especially when the payload message is false).
".... if you voice opposition you will get an earful of screeching."
I vote we learn to ignore earfuls of screeching as the cost of speaking the truth. Like that old guy who tells his new golfing partner to not be seen talking to him in the parking lot because the old guy's wife believes he is deaf.
The consequences of this stupid thinking appear in the news, occasionally. A few years ago in the nearby large, deep blue city, a young woman had her smartphone snatched from her hands. Intent on reclaiming her property and delivering a thrashing (just like in the movies!) to this a misguided youth, she pursued him into the parking garage where he promptly sexually assaulted her.
About two decades ago I wanted to be a police officer. For a few years I went through the whole rigmarole of fitness testing and such things. I can relate three memorable events from those adventures:
1. Carrying a grown adult of any size for any serious distance is extremely hard. At a time when I weighed over 200 lbs and was more than capable of multiple body weight big lifts with barbells, carrying even a 150 pound dead weight for distance was no joke. I can't imagine a woman half my size with a fraction of my strength having any luck there.
2. One test involved scaling a cinder block wall which was about 7 feet high. None of the men had any trouble with this. We all hit it and went over it without a hitch. The women were all nervous and most of them failed.
3. On one occasion, we were asked to do a trigger pull test with an unloaded S&W .38 caliber. Two of the women couldn't even do that.
50 odd years ago, I trained as a fireman.(Gave it up, being a fireman, with virtually no fires is really boring) However, part of the training is to carry a person (around 180lbs) down a turntable ladder from 90 ft to the ground. I had no problem bringing down my carry but almost refused to get on someone else's shoulders to be carried down. 90 Feet is a hell of a way to fall if the other cannot make it or loses his grip. There is no way on earth that a woman could carry me down that ladder.
Next exercise is to crawl 50 ft in a smoke filled building wearing full breathing apparatus and pulling a body on a harness around your neck and between your legs.
Yet today they insist that women can become firefighters, yes but only if the fires are really small and no one needs to be rescued.
Since 1961 the "Parabats" have held selection trials. In the last 20 years they have allowed women to try. Not a single woman has passed the physical selection process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsCdTYxHwCs
I am a misogynist. Live with it.
misogynist? let's go with realist. thanks for the front line report of the rigors of the job and the reality of the silliness of thinking that a 128 lb chick can shoulder a 190 (or more) lb anyone down a ladder. the word picture is chilling. also for reminding us that MOST "firefighters" attend very few fires yearly. in my 'hood the number is 1 every two years. time to stop using the term perhaps
“How can adults possibly be this unaware of the overwhelming physical differences between men and women?”
Adults (at least those with even a small endowment of intellectual maturity) are not unaware. Mental children are capable of living all kinds of fantasy that are wholly inconsistent with reality. At least for a while, until their delusions run them into a wall.
When I was a real boy ("Blessings on thee little man, barefoot boy with cheek of tan...") and this was a free country, the incipient female army of crypto fantasists waged a stealth war against male realists. The women fought incrementally and with psychological subtlety. Like Operation Fortitude, Patton's fake plywood army, the feminine crypto invaders camoflauged their real invasion so as to sneak up unawares on their enemies, real masculine men and toxic masculinity. Subtlety and tentativeness were early military strategies of the fantasist lady invaders, adopted so as not to alert and alarm America's defenders of masculine reality that they are under siege. Otherwise, our Paul Revere guys might have called the nation's real American men to arms, "The Whacky Lady Weirdos Are Coming! The Whacky Lady Weirdos Are Coming!" "By land, by sea and over the TV!" "Eeek, they're in our beds!"
Gone are the days of white wine by the bottle and pink roses by the dozen. Now it's whiskey by the barrel and hedgerows of thorn. Subtle incrementalism in the War of Female Delusion Against Male Reality was replaced by the raucous audacity of Ladies Operation Overlord. Amphibious armies of academic, political and cultural femi-nazis ("FN's") have stormed ashore, set up beacheads, and launched blitzkrieg against reality's disinformation. The FN's have fact-checked and found wanting the outdated (pre 19th Amendment,) sexist notion that men can do anything which requires brains, muscle, planning, coordination, athleticism, and skill, let alone actually do it better than women. (On June 6, 1944, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Womens Army Corps, it seems, would have been faster and deadlier than Ike and the Boys of Point du Hoch and Omaha Beach.)
In the novus ordo seclorum, men are not fearless but feckless, mere Homer and Bart Simpsons to be told by Marge, Lisa and Edna Krabappel what to do, how and when to do it, and to be led in doing it by their Ellen Degeneris, Jane Fonda and Joey Behar "Betters Who Do It Better." Society is to be ruled and run by its latter day ubermensch, those who identify as female, bisexual, or sign up for the growing army of trans women recruits. (Now we know the answer to Dr. Doolittle's question, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" They can, and they're better at it. In fact check, men make the best women.)
Passing shot: note that in today's ubiquitous action hero movies and TV series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, et cetera females are often deadly Jamey Bonds possesed of "particular skills" with which to chase down, run over, outrun, shoot dead, and stab, club, kick box and strangle to death slower, weaker, clumsy, real men bad guys (with their six-pack abs, oak tree arms, and race horse legs,) who outsize the good guy gals (by 8-10 inches) and outweigh them (by 90-110 pounds) with excess, needless height, girth and muscle, which slow the real men bad guys down and weaken them.
So much for the Spartan masculinity of Roman warriors. And why do we bother even to call it "toxic?"
The covert influence campaign to convince Normals that women are the equals of men in combat kicked off with 1997's "GI Jane:"
"When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the US Navy's elite SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. LT. Jordan O'Neill is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Neill is determined to prove everyone wrong."
This was about the same time that the US president in every Hollywood movie was black.
Covert influence works wonders. It's much more powerful than overt rhetorical convincing (especially when the payload message is false).
Elspeth is now at CNN. https://twitter.com/elspethreeve/
".... if you voice opposition you will get an earful of screeching."
I vote we learn to ignore earfuls of screeching as the cost of speaking the truth. Like that old guy who tells his new golfing partner to not be seen talking to him in the parking lot because the old guy's wife believes he is deaf.
Karsten Braasch strikes again!
Briggs ya filthy liar, the struggling she (in training) manages some dozen painful steps! 😂
PS Serena sisters! 😂 Your enemies or not, it's hilarious either way.
Phew... I knew my persiflage wouldn't land bad... until 'em pesky doubts started to creep in 😊
The consequences of this stupid thinking appear in the news, occasionally. A few years ago in the nearby large, deep blue city, a young woman had her smartphone snatched from her hands. Intent on reclaiming her property and delivering a thrashing (just like in the movies!) to this a misguided youth, she pursued him into the parking garage where he promptly sexually assaulted her.
Remind me to have Marvel movies banned.
You mean this: https://youtu.be/Sf58wa6e5Mg
Ranger roll it is...
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About two decades ago I wanted to be a police officer. For a few years I went through the whole rigmarole of fitness testing and such things. I can relate three memorable events from those adventures:
1. Carrying a grown adult of any size for any serious distance is extremely hard. At a time when I weighed over 200 lbs and was more than capable of multiple body weight big lifts with barbells, carrying even a 150 pound dead weight for distance was no joke. I can't imagine a woman half my size with a fraction of my strength having any luck there.
2. One test involved scaling a cinder block wall which was about 7 feet high. None of the men had any trouble with this. We all hit it and went over it without a hitch. The women were all nervous and most of them failed.
3. On one occasion, we were asked to do a trigger pull test with an unloaded S&W .38 caliber. Two of the women couldn't even do that.
Not surprised about the trigger pull.