Men and women are different: Settled science or sexism?

The U.S. Army recently instituted a new and controversial physical fitness test to evaluate combat readiness for soldiers.  Why is it controversial?  Because eighty-four percent of the women who take the test fail it. Many of those who complain about the imbalance offer varied excuses for the disparity in men's and women's test scores, but many of those excuses actually hurt the radical feminist case, which states that "anything men can do, women can do (perhaps better)." For example, at one website, a feminist complains about the Army test being unfair to women.  The feminist says, "[T]he real killer for women is the 'leg tuck' portion of the ACFT, in which you assume a pull-up position and bring your hips and knees up to your elbows and back down as many times as possible in two minutes. That's asking an awful lot for a woman who has given birth in the last few months[.]" Indeed, the...(Read Full Post)
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