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[-] ZDL@lazysoci.al 5 points 3 days ago

It's more complicated than that, in fact.

Women are in many areas stronger than men of equal size/weight.

  • We build up slow-twitch muscle, the thinly-corded muscular foundations of lifting strength and endurance running and such better than men. Men are better at building up fast-twitch muscle, the thickly-corded muscular foundations of rapid motion like throwing, sprinting, punching, kicking, etc. This implies that a trained woman can likely lift more than a trained man when corrected for size differences, can run for longer distances, etc. but the equivalently-sized man will punch harder, and sprint faster.
  • We are more resistant to disease than men.
  • We handle pain better than men.
  • We can handle G-forces better than men.

But if you look at what male-dominated media favours in competitions of "strength" it's almost all fast-twitch activities that are valued. The one exception is lifting, but there men have the visible edge because they're bodily much larger, so they lift more straight by proportional body weight.

this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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