1/ This thread is astounding. https://twitter.com/dwbwriter/status/1180976708717092864 …
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6/ break free from an attacker. "Grab my wrist" I did. Then she proceeded to do a choreographed "wrist break" to get free. It failed, the first four or so times. Bc untrained man >>>> hyper trained woman.
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7/ The other story is our farm. Wife and I both work a lot during the weekend. She works super hard, right along side me. But there are things that she couldn't remotely do, and I can. She works hard to move one 50 sack of feed. I can throw two on a shoulder & carry third.
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8/ Or load a tractor bucket with a bunch of 80 and 100 lb rocks. Or lift one end of a 600 lbs tractor rototiller and move it a foot.
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9/ My military experience is minimal. But I'm pretty damned confident that at the pointy end of the spear weird random tasks like "carry jerry cans of fuel 500 feet" or "roll a 400 lb barrel of grease up a slight hill" or "drag 280 lbs of soldier and gear 60 feet" pop up.
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10/ So re
@dwbwriter > you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Want to pass judgment on the fitness level of soldiers? Then put on a uniform, learn what a PT test is, it’s purpose, and what does and doesn’t work. let me say that I've been in uniform, and I've seenShow this thread -
11/ women unable to do a pull up in testing, and how this means that in the field they can't climb over a 6' tall wooden wall that all of the men could. I've been on a farm and I've see that my wife can't REMOTELY move a 600 lb rototiller. Note that the mil tests are gendered
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12/ And while men have to do things like lift their entire body weight with their biceps and lats, women have to HANG IN PLACE. Even things like running are scored different. even if they were scored the same, the fact that running measures one's ability to move one's OWN body
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13/ it's a terrible proxy for "can this person hump a mortar, drag a fallen comrade, push rubble out of the way" etc It takes an insane level of SJW mind-killing reality denial to think that women - even elite women - are anywhere as good at combat as even average men.
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15/ And let's also remember MINDSET. I listen to my wife on the phone and I grit my teeth. She anti-negotiates. "Oh, whatever's easier for you!!!" WHAT? Whereas my stories include things likehttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1180582107946483712 …
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16/ Thrilled to hear that they had the balls for flunk 2/3 of them. Excellent! https://twitter.com/ListenHereJimbo/status/1181227504805273601 …
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