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To: SkyDancer
I fly that NATO combat trainer ... I have dumped a lot of guys when we went up to do a rat chase/fur ball/dog fight ....I have never been shot down (so to speak) by any guy. Those trainers pull 9gs positive and 3g’s negative ... we don’t wear g-suits when we do it. I’m 5’7 and weight 120 .....

I'm not sure what the point of your post is. Your anecdotal experience in one frame of reference says nothing about overall statistics or about other frames of reference. Am I to conclude that decades worth of research in sex differences is in error because of your (limited) experiences?

Or should I counter with additional frames of reference? I could give you my own personal anecdotes concerning an amateur national championship women's hockey team that played in our local beer league. Not only did they go 0-25 for the season, the average margin of victory was in double digits. I suppose I could make observations about women based on this experience that would be just as accurate and valid as yours, yes? Or perhaps the fact is that your personal experience is statistically irrelevant (as is mine)?

Actually, your statements hurt your case more than anything else. Whenever I hear some guy talking about how tough he is (or how much better at X or Y he is), it's usually the exact opposite. People who are impressive don't have to talk about it. So my natural reaction (also backed up by personal experience, making it as equally valid as your post above) is to assume that his bluster is actually an admission of inferiority... and his desperate desire that it was not so.

So what does that say about your post?

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

56 posted on 08/08/2009 5:50:58 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

Ok, whatever ...


58 posted on 08/08/2009 5:53:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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