Why Men Should Never Hit Womenhttp://www.unz.com/gnxp/why-men-should-never-hit-women/
The mean ages of the two distributions were the same, 33. So d is naturally 0 for this measure. For height men are 1.75 standard deviations taller, on average, than women. This seems about right. You can see in body fat percentage that women have higher values than men. The d here is negative. It gets interesting once you get to muscles. These are measuring volumes. When it comes to arm muscles the average male has 2.5 standard deviation units more than the average female! I was also surprised by the thigh muscle, as arm musculature differences have always been more salient. Finally, there’s the fat free mass...
Some have pointed out to me before that the standard sexual dimorphism calculation in relation to humans may not be informative in the way we might think. There’s about a 10% size differences between men and women. But as you see in the “fat free mass” row the size difference is much more extreme if you account for the higher body fat of women. This is relevant because fat does not make you strong, it just adds more weight and volume. In terms of upper body muscle mass there’s less than a 10% overlap between the two distributions. The vast majority of men have more muscle mass than all women. 99.9% of females have less upper body muscle mass than the average male. The 61% greater average muscle mass in male upper bodies translates into 90% greater average strength (the respective values for the lower body are 50% and 61%)...
I spent a lot of time fixating on numbers above because I don’t beat women. More pointedly, I’ve never hit a woman...
Now, mind you, there are a small minority of women who are stronger than a small minority of men. The statistics above make it clear. But it is very unlikely that in a pairwise interaction the very strongest females will randomly face the very weakest males... [emphasis in the original article]
There are two reasons I’m posting this. First, I’m assuming most of my male readers have never beaten a woman, so they too lack good intuition about what they might be capable of if they did do such a thing. There isn’t the sort of thing you really want first-person experience of, so scientific research which can gain you some sense of the shape of reality is useful. Second, the general skepticism and rejectionism of biological differences in behavior between the sexes which is now common on the cultural Left can start to bleed into other domains in the most surreal ways.
For my own part, I have never hit a woman either in anger or with meaningful force. I have hit women in martial arts. In the traditional arts, it consisted of a very light tap/tag during sparring and such. In kickboxing, it was just enough of a tap to let them know I made contact and it was deliberate. While I was a kickboxing chump in my male weight class, I likely would kill a competitive female kickboxer with a single solid blow, even the bigger gals.
To translate the d (differences in mean as measured in standard deviations) into percentages, let me help (all at age 33):
* A difference (d) in the mean of 2.5SD means that roughly 0.621% of women have arm muscle volume greater than the average man. Put another way, 99.379% of women have less arm muscle volume than the average man.
* Lean (non-fat) body mass d of 2.06SD means that 1.97% of women have lean mass greater than the average man. (And 98.03% of women have less lean mass than the average man). The lean mass takes bone mass into consideration, too.
For my own part, I can think of better uses for women in the military than combat units, where they will die fast and get men killed, too, who otherwise would live.
I am reminded of a recent John C Wright column, a bit of which I will quote:
How long until the Left wake up? The answer is: NEVER.
The Left will never wake up to reality for precisely the reason that Leftism is a mental system of excuses and psychological tricks and traps meant to allow the Leftist to escape from reality.
That is what all their rigmarole, jabberwocky, lies and evasions, all their complex obfuscations, and penning endless tomes of endless nonsense from Marx to Keynes to Al Gore, all their riots, marches, protests, sit-ins, think-tanks, media moguls, money laundering, awards shows, convulsions, antics, stunts, clamor, libel, slander, and cacophony is for: Reality avoidance.
That is all that it is for.
It was not always thus. Perhaps a generation ago, there were Leftists who joined the Democrat Party for what were political reasons, to promote labor unions, impose regulation on banks and businesses in response to some threat, real or imaginary, posed by the free market, or to encourage the welfare state to help the poor.
