No, not THAT Trump – the reality that standards are generally there for a reason in life, safety, and the military. Physical strength counts and counts for a lot (yes, I just got a reminder of that this weekend when *I* couldn’t open the Saab’s coolant cover no matter what I did and the Eldest simply grinned and opened it in 4 seconds). The Youngest has only contempt for those in civilian command posts (and the PC General Staff that pander to them) that believe that women are interchangeable with men when it comes, not only in fighting in combat, but in hauling combat loads under difficult conditions without breaking down.
Or firefighting standards – this may well end badly but the PC Gender Social Justice Warriors must have their scalp (reformatted, emphasis mine):
A woman who six times failed the physical test to become an FDNY firefighter is being given another chance — and this time, critics say, the fix is in. “She’ll graduate, no question,” said an FDNY member. “The department doesn’t want another black eye.” Wendy Tapia was allowed to conditionally graduate from the Fire Academy on May 17, 2013, even though she had failed the running test. After swearing her in, the FDNY gave Tapia five more chances to run the required 1.5 miles in 12 minutes or less, but she couldn’t do it. She quit — never having worked a tour of duty.
Now Tapia, 34, is getting yet another chance to join
The Bravest. She’s among a group of emergency medical technicians promoted to probationary firefighters and set to start the 18-week training academy Monday. Tapia’s return comes as the FDNY has quietly eased its standards to admit more women.
These kinds of standards are there for a reason – lives depend on them. It’s one thing to be able to meet an aspect of a standard in a given situation – it’s another to meeting them all in any kind of situation. Easily there are women that can meet one or more of the standards and I am quite sure that there are some exceptional women that can meet all of the physical standards – that’s the high end of the bell curve for them. But physical standards, the curve for exceptional men outdoes it – go ahead and pick a sport and generally the exceptional men will always beat the exceptional men. Not only that, most men will beat the exceptional women as well. It’s biology, stupid.
Look, if you can met it, beat it, you should be in. Can’t, don’t. Period.
After paying $98 million to settle a federal lawsuit charging bias against minority applicants, the city is loath to face a gender-discrimination suit, sources say. Women firefighters number only 49 in the 10,500-member force. At the end of her last Fire Academy stint in 2013, Tapia blamed her failure to pass the running test on a foot injury.
And here come the SJWs:
United Women Firefighters, a group of active and retired FDNY women, persuaded then-Commissioner Salvatore Cassano to let Tapia graduate — and pass the test later. She was assigned to Engine No. 316 in East Elmhurst, Queens, but never worked a shift. Over the next six months, she failed the test five more times. After the sixth try, she finally resigned and returned to her former EMT job.
Six times – seriously? If I failed something even three times, knowing that I had done my best each and every time and had prepared to the best of my ability, I know that I’d be thinking “Gosh, I bet I could be REALLY good – but at something else”. But in every SJW’s toolbox is always another widget to prove victimhood – and here’s two:
At the time, UWF president Sarinya Srisakul blamed Tapia’s running failure on stress fractures in the academy — and The Post’s coverage. “She’s small and they overtrained her,” Srisakul told the Village Voice. The FDNY hunted insiders it suspected of leaking information on Tapia. Lt. Elizabeth Osgood, who objected to Tapia’s special treatment, was barred from promotion for months. Capt. Paul Mannix, the president of Merit Matters, a group opposed to quotas, was forced into silence. Reached by phone last week, Tapia hung up on a reporter.
FDNY spokesman Jim Long refused to comment on Tapia, but said, “All who enter the academy must meet the same requirements in order to graduate.”
Obviously, some animals are more equal than others. And obviously, some standards are more equal than others, but at what price?
