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The Consequences of Lying to Girls
My son attends a prep school. It is liberal, but not quite as liberal as the two neighboring girls’ schools. There is a rivalry between the schools, only slightly complicated by the fact that the girls’ schools have some students who think they are boys.
The girls at one school, which happens to play dodgeball competitively within the school, decided to organize a tri-school contest. Challenging the boys. They were certain they were going to win. They marched out with great pomp and splendor. Teams were set at 20 girls to 16 boys.
Of course, they were destroyed. From the very beginning, when the lines rushed for balls, the girls decided not to sprint full tilt at the 220+ pound ogres who were coming right at them. Even my son, who is not only white but Jewish, and thus embarrassingly awful at ball games, went 2-0.
Which leaves us with a question: do girls really believe the nonsense in the movies and shows, where toothpick-sized girls routinely knock out 250-pound men? It seems that they do.
I find it amazing that upper-crust, highly educated 18-year-old girls can ignore all data to the contrary, and believe that they are going to win a game of dodgeball against 18-year-old boys. I hope the result was educational.
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Do girls believe this nonsense about themselves or do they believe that the nonsense is true for other girls?
I think it’s that they believe the nonsense is true for other girls. So, they’re ashamed of not measuring up, and they end up trying to meet a standard they weren’t designed to meet and/or trying to hide from themselves and others the fact that they can’t.
Maybe. But a whole lot of women – like over 50% – seem to think they deserve men who are like 5% or less of men: over 6 ft tall, high income, etc. So maybe they do believe they could beat men physically too? It might not be the MOST ridiculous thing they’re being told.
If you peruse the weightlifting world records, actual women top out at 60% of the performance of actual men in top competition. An individual woman with talent can train-up to dominate most men, but there is a natural limit that the butchers and poisoners of the trans covens cannot abolish.
Talking with my sister, a wisp of a woman like her mother, she asked me what I made of the gush of violent female characters in film. I explained that it was fantasy, but my concern was that, the way it was being presented and pressed, women would begin to view this as expected. That they step up the way men are expected to when faced with a physical attack, completely disregarding the natural advantages of the average masculine attacker. I liked what they did with the first Wonder Woman movie, showing that despite her rough and ready martial training she had a feminine streak, even melting at the sight of a baby. Enough images of Captain Marvels and Galadriels and whatnot seeping into the skulls of developing young girls and the shame of not offering combat or, worse, being crushed in combat, will completely destroy them. And they will queue up for therapy at the hands of the kind of feckless monsters that have been promoting this nonsense all along.
Quarterbacks can be undersized as long as they have the throwing, catching and dodginess in their gait.
So all your son needs to do is get better at the game. Sometimes one small change to the stuff he does on the field can make the difference.