Competition proves that women are unequal to men - Granite Grok

Competition proves that women are unequal to men

In times past, I’ve been glued to the screen watching the Olympics – this time, not so much.  TMEW has been and with the DVR, has saved off some of the events that she knows I’d like to watch a bit – short course speed skating, bobsled, bi-athalon, some of the other skiing, and snowboard.  I’m not dissing the other sports – to get to the Olympics in ANYTHING is far beyond what I could do athletically.  But those, to me, are exciting, fast moving – and the slope style and half pipe snowboard events proves two points (emphasis mine):

In a preview of the U.S. military’s planned integration of females into combat positions, female skiers and snowboarders have been wiping out at disproportionate numbers at the Extreme Park in Sochi. Unlike traditional ski runs, which vary in difficulty according to whether they are designed for males or females, the course for highflying snowboarders and freestyle skiers is largely unisex: Females are expected to navigate the same jumps as the males. The result has been an avalanche of female falls and injuries: Of the 22 accidents that either forced athletes out of the competition or required medical attention on the final run, 16 involved female skiers, reports the New York Times, even though far fewer females than males actually essay the course.

I did NOT know that the gals were getting hurt far more than the dudes.  It can’t just be the motivation to succeed and push the envelope – this is the freaking Olympics, after all!  If there is a time to put it on the line, and slam it even further forward, it’s now.  I can’t accept that the gals are trying harder – they all are.  Before finding that post at The Corner, I had repeatedly said to TMEW “Look at the difference in the height and the difficulty of the stunts and tricks”   – the men are totally way above the women in that regard.  I’m no expert, but if I had to guess, the top five women would have been hard pressed to qualify in the mens’ events.  The number of twists and sumersaults done by the women, in general, were half that done by the men.  The feminists want and scream for equality – yet when presented with equality of course, they are complaining:

…“Most of the courses are built for the big show, for the men,” she told the Times. “I think they could do more to make it safer for women.”

Uh-oh! Gender-studies red flag! “Making it safer for women,” as in: recognizing female difference and adopting a chivalric attitude towards the female sex? Big, big problem. The Olympics’ history of “trying to protect women from the perils of some sports” by creating easier ski courses is “sexist, perhaps,” agonizes the Times’ reporter. And yet, the “equality” at Extreme Park comes at the “possible detriment of the female participants.”

The true feminist will blithely have it both ways, indifferent to the contradiction: The unisex course is sexist because it injures women and trying to protect women from injury is sexist [sorta like global warming – both cold & hot are due to it simultaneously  -Skip]. Likewise, feminists toggle at will between the position that there should be gender quotas for women in political positions, say, because females bring a special sensibility to political problems, and the position that men and women are identical in every way and thus that any disparities in outcomes — whether in advanced math and physics attainment or in the predilection for public debate — must be the result of sexism.

Ya can’t have it both ways, say that both sexes are the same yet women need quotas.  Me?  Appreciate the “diversity”, folks.  There is nothing wrong that one sex can do more than other: embrace excellence in both.  But this obvious difference, on display for the WHOLE world, is a nightmare for the “we all are unisex if it weren’t for “heteronormative bigotry and the Patriarchy”.  Yeah, whatever – but these results can’t be so easily swept under the rug (regardless of which sex is holding the broom).  No, I bet this has been an embarrassment for those feminists that absolute reject that there are ANY differences (I am women, hear me ROAR!  I am STRONG and don’t you forget it except when there’s an inanimate statue of a man in his underwear on a womens’ (Wesllesley) college and then I’m so scared!).

Both ways.at will” – Pretty much sums up the positions that are shown to the world in these feminist outrage debates.  Coils down to: self-serving and using the victimhood identity politics of the Left – “Society has sinned against me so now I get affirmative action”. Clue: most of us guys, except for the Beta males that try to curry favor from the bottom, just roll our eyes, sigh, and tune out.  We’ve hear “must be the result of sexism” so often that it is like other Progressives, happy to hide behind name calling as well, calling us bigots, homophobes, and rascists.  Valley speak says it we: whatever.  We just tune it out like an a overlong stay by someone we don’t really care much for.

But back to a that line at the very top: “In a preview of the U.S. military’s planned integration of females into combat positions“.  While athletics is important entertainment, the real life component is where we DO see feminists trying to have it both ways and that is in our military and demanding to be at the most demanding endurance spot – the tip of the spear.  And as shown by the Marine Corp, it is not going well in trenches for women having to meet the same standards as the men.  The problem here is that IF you try to “protect” women to get into combat SOCOM or high level infantry, you will “unprotect” them as well as those around them.  I look at The Youngest who spent a year w/101st Airborne drudging up and down the Afghan mountains at altitude (7-10,000 ft) with a >100 lb pack on his back and I see the bad knee that constantly cracks out loud, the grimace on his face from back pain, and I know there’s stuff I don’t know about, too.  He’s a very strong kid man, athletic (though not Olympic caliber)  and it just wore him down.  Better now than when he first came home, but he was a mess physically.  While I imagine that a few women could hold up (there is that upper end of the bell curve), not as many as what the Politically Correct gang are trying to make Conventional Wisdom (and you are bigoted if you disagree!).  But this will be the line going forward:

The Army will be blamed for not doing enough to protect females while also being pressured to pretend that females are the absolute equal of men and thus need no protection.

When it comes down to it, you can’t paper over the differences – but boy, they are gonna try and boy, are people gonna get hurt.  Just like the female snowboards when the course is equal for the whole world to see.

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