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Article #1838Re: Women involved in combat (was Re: fu&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()@#!~!`)
From: Ian Sutherland
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <5122be$9252@michiganj.intr.net>, Rex <rex@intr.net> wrote: >scoundrl@mindspring.com (Tom Gauldin) wrote: > >>>Anyway, plenty of women beat men in marathons already. They just >>>don't beat the fastest ones. > >I think the first usually women come in anywhere between 30-100th. > >They get prizes for coming in "first" that men who come in 10th don't >get. > >Doesn't speak much for the equal endurance arguement. Of course, there's more to running a marathon than general endurance. I seem to recall reading somewhere that women's skeletons are not as well designed structurally for running as men's (on average, as always, of course). I'll let others hash out exactly what the consequences of this fact (if it is a fact) are for the notion of women being in combat (and that's _not_ my sarcastic way of saying I think it disqualifies them). -- Ian Sutherland ian@ece.nwu.edu Sans Peur
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e4d2,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid10e4d2,public X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: fff25,f8b2c62c696fa28e X-Google-Attributes: gidfff25,public X-Google-Thread: 10fa57,f8b2c62c696fa28e X-Google-Attributes: gid10fa57,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,f8b2c62c696fa28e X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: 10374a,c920659657f04eed X-Google-Attributes: gid10374a,public From: ian@eecs.nwu.edu (Ian Sutherland) Subject: Re: Women involved in combat (was Re: fu&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()@#!~!`) Date: 1996/09/10 Message-ID: <512scm$o85@news.ece.nwu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 179621116 references: <322E584F.3521@injersey.com> <32342a95.235256706@client.news.psi.net> <511ct4$ssp@camel0.mindspring.com> <5122be$9252@michiganj.intr.net> organization: EE/CS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. newsgroups: ne.general,la.general,alt.america,nc.general,ba.general,ok.general,nv.general,ok.general,nh.general,nj.general,nm.general,ca.general,chi.general,co.general,dc.general