Modern society is striving for every person, regardless of race, gender, or nationality to be treated as if they are identical. Activist can publish all the articles they want in an attempt to make everyone equal, but that will not make it so. The front line in a combat situation is one place where women just do not belong.
Society would like us to believe that the only difference between African Americans and Caucasians is skin color, but if you go to any park in America and observe a game of pickup basketball, you will quickly notice that the two races are very different, both socially and physically. The two races have different backgrounds and cultures which affect their behaviors in ways that make each unique. Similarly, women want …show more content…
Similar adjustments were made to other standards. At Annapolis, a two-foot stepping stool was added to an indoor obstacle course to enable women to surmount an eight-foot wall (Mitchell). “A man’s bones are denser, his heart is bigger—making his aerobic capacity greater—and he is able to develop much more lean muscle mass. He can carry more weight and run farther, faster with it. His units-of-work effort is worth many of hers, and he will be able to maintain a demanding, arduous level of performance for far longer than she will in both the short and long term.” (Eden) Mother Nature has provided us with many years of research showing that women are less adept. Although there are more women participating in physical sports, the research does not yield any differences. A woman performing the same activity as a man expends more energy and effort to achieve the same results. The top female CrossFitters competing against the top male CrossFitters do not stand a chance, despite being some of the fittest women to date. Eden also states, “ More women leave the military, when or before their contracts are up. Women are regularly unavailable for duty for female issues.”(Eden). Regardless of how popular feminism becomes, it still won’t change the actuality that women have less dense bones, leaving them more …show more content…
The study reports that gender had a significant effect on test performance. Even when wearing heavy and cumbersome personal protective equipment, (e.g., flak jackets) males (mostly ages 17 to 26) scored significantly higher than the females (mostly ages 17 to 26) who did not wear such equipment. Gender disparities in upper body strength were later shown when fifty-five percent of Marine female recruits could not perform three pull-ups by the end of boot camp, while the failure rate for male recruits was one percent (Rice). The rigorous demands of combat can push men to their extreme. According to Rice, there are two components of physical requirements for infantry service. First, there is the aspect of strength, stamina, speed, and endurance. Second is the ability to perform these tasks through the catabolic stress of extended combat operations. While in combat, infantrymen are often required to dig trenches for fighting, carry heavy equipment, march with weighted packs, and carry casualties on their backs, all while wearing eighty-pound packs, with incoming hostile fire. The Marine Corps designed the Combat Fitness Test (CFT) to test some of the rigors infantrymen will encounter. It Measures lifting, running, maneuvering under fire, grenade throwing, and carrying equipment and casualties. Being that women can work to become as strong as men, some argue that the increased athletic performance
Society would like us to believe that the only difference between African Americans and Caucasians is skin color, but if you go to any park in America and observe a game of pickup basketball, you will quickly notice that the two races are very different, both socially and physically. The two races have different backgrounds and cultures which affect their behaviors in ways that make each unique. Similarly, women want …show more content…
Similar adjustments were made to other standards. At Annapolis, a two-foot stepping stool was added to an indoor obstacle course to enable women to surmount an eight-foot wall (Mitchell). “A man’s bones are denser, his heart is bigger—making his aerobic capacity greater—and he is able to develop much more lean muscle mass. He can carry more weight and run farther, faster with it. His units-of-work effort is worth many of hers, and he will be able to maintain a demanding, arduous level of performance for far longer than she will in both the short and long term.” (Eden) Mother Nature has provided us with many years of research showing that women are less adept. Although there are more women participating in physical sports, the research does not yield any differences. A woman performing the same activity as a man expends more energy and effort to achieve the same results. The top female CrossFitters competing against the top male CrossFitters do not stand a chance, despite being some of the fittest women to date. Eden also states, “ More women leave the military, when or before their contracts are up. Women are regularly unavailable for duty for female issues.”(Eden). Regardless of how popular feminism becomes, it still won’t change the actuality that women have less dense bones, leaving them more …show more content…
The study reports that gender had a significant effect on test performance. Even when wearing heavy and cumbersome personal protective equipment, (e.g., flak jackets) males (mostly ages 17 to 26) scored significantly higher than the females (mostly ages 17 to 26) who did not wear such equipment. Gender disparities in upper body strength were later shown when fifty-five percent of Marine female recruits could not perform three pull-ups by the end of boot camp, while the failure rate for male recruits was one percent (Rice). The rigorous demands of combat can push men to their extreme. According to Rice, there are two components of physical requirements for infantry service. First, there is the aspect of strength, stamina, speed, and endurance. Second is the ability to perform these tasks through the catabolic stress of extended combat operations. While in combat, infantrymen are often required to dig trenches for fighting, carry heavy equipment, march with weighted packs, and carry casualties on their backs, all while wearing eighty-pound packs, with incoming hostile fire. The Marine Corps designed the Combat Fitness Test (CFT) to test some of the rigors infantrymen will encounter. It Measures lifting, running, maneuvering under fire, grenade throwing, and carrying equipment and casualties. Being that women can work to become as strong as men, some argue that the increased athletic performance