Female Marine Pullup Failure Doesn’t Mean Women Aren’t Strong

The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 3, 2014 | Mollie Hemingway

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think she’s pitching this to the gender feminists. Whether *they* have a spark left in their brain is still a good topic for a panel discussion.

[EEGator]

It is not on there right now.

[EEGator]

Wait, this pull-up story, or the MMA one?

This article, no.
The MMA story is a few weeks old.

[Straight Vermonter]

I went to a high school basketball game this afternoon. The school I was rooting for only has about 500 kids. Our team's star is a 10th grader. He dunked 3 times in the game.

Last year there was quite a media hubbub over a WNBA player who dunked twice in a game.

One has to be delusional to expect even freakishly athletic women to compare well to an ordinarily athletic man.

[imardmd1]

And it doesn’t prove that men are physically superior in every way.

Let's bring it down to reality. In a ne-on-one combat situation, can she prevail? I wouldn't want to be in a rifle squad where she is the weak link.

"For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe . . . " etc.

[octex]

Sad. The way Obama’s hand-picked Joint Chiefs and SecDef have tried to wussiefy our military services.

I wonder what the physical capability requirements are for the Israeli women who serve in the IDF?

[Arm_Bears]

Is the concept of sarcasm foreign to you, or are you purposively being thick?

[nickcarraway]

It started under Bush. He pushed an ultra-PC military.

[dragnet2]

Those who've been in the military, in combat training or actual war, understand how physically difficult, back breaking, dirty and nasty it can be. I've heard all the talk about women in combat and seen how Hollywood portrays them.

Which is fine and good....Unless that is you want the strongest, badest and best on the ground. Otherwise I'm sure women are great in combat.

Me, if I'm carrying 60lbs or stuff 20 miles across some 100+ degree foreign garbage pit, filled with religious voodoo worshiping fanatics who are trying to cut my head off, I'd want the biggest badest strongest SOB's I could possibly get to go along with me...End of story...

[AbnSarge]

No, it started well before that. I’ve been in long enough to know.

BTW, the IDF quickly got rid of the women in front-line units. They are in support and service support units.

[MV=PY]

With respect, ma’am, I don’t believe she is agreeing with me.

The basic premise that “women aren’t strong” because some cannot do a pull up is not worth thinking about, much less a conversation.

If she agreed with me she would never have written the article.

[VerySadAmerican]

That’s not fair. There’s no way anyone can ever prove that I couldn’t handle having a baby as easy as a woman.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’m agreeing 110%.

[Cvengr]

Warfare will always exist until human volition is overcome. Technology is not always and rarely a substitute for mano a mano, to have one’s adversary change their way of thinking.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think the problem is, she wasn’t writing “to” you, a call-a-spade-a-spade kind of guy. She was writing to, or for, people who would enjoy John Semmens’ “Semi-News/Semi-Satire.”

[ConorMacNessa]

Semper Fi to you as well, Brother! I love the photo of you in front of the White House!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[MV=PY]

I think the problem is, she wasn’t writing “to” you, a call-a-spade-a-spade kind of guy. She was writing to, or for, people who would enjoy John Semmens’ “Semi-News/Semi-Satire.”

Oh, I love John's work. We correspond occasionally.

I confess that I missed the /s tag on this one. Too subtle for me! ;-)

[spiritplumber]

Men are stronger than women. This is a scientific fact. Women are more resistant to pain than men. This is a scientific fact. An efficiently run army would make use of this. A honorable army would keep women out of combat. "All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can — and must — be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly — and no doubt will keep on trying." -- Robert Heinlein

[x1stcav]

This tw@t has obviously never come close to a combat situation.

Still, that doesn’t mean she can’t blather in an incoherent and ignorant way.

Gawd! Am I glad I served when I did.

[TalBlack]

They are not strong. The annals of police history are crammed with their failures but nobody acknowledges them and everyone makes believe that the pain, death and suffering they bring about doesn’t matter.

An adult male is unconscious on the RR tracks? Girl cop arrives on scene first but...she is forced to wait for a real cop to arrive since she cannot lift or move the guy. Mad dog raping and murdering a woman in her home, girl cop arrives and....she is to weak to kick in the door and too plump and weak to clear a window of glass and go thru it, so she waits for the real cops who kick in the door and sort things out (chalk outline, bloodspatter)

Male female cop team arresting NYC ne’r do well inside his apt. Suspects girl asseses female portion of team and concludes that she can take her. She is right and she gets the girl cops gun and it is used on the 6’2” male portion of the team as he is the only threat present. Think of the possibilities and probabilities along these lines and it really boggles the mind.