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Isn't "all women are naturally and inherently better at shoveling snow" just as sexist of an assumption as "women aren't as likely to shovel snow"? If men are
by freehunter 9y ago
Isn't "all women are naturally and inherently better at shoveling snow" just as sexist of an assumption as "women aren't as likely to shovel snow"?
If men are more likely to shovel snow, that's just statistics and sample sizes and can be controlled for to determine its validity. If all women everywhere are so much better at shoveling than men that it produces a statistically measurable outcome in an unrelated study, that is massively huge news about the innate physical differences between genders.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoThis isn't a case of better or worse at shoveling snow, though. I mean, it could be, but that's not what this implies. It simply states that maybe women shovel in a way that doesn't lead to heart attacks so easily, which wouldn't be that far into fantasy. It isn't the first time we've noticed such things. For example, "throwing like a girl" is a thing for most girls, caused by the way the body is put together after puberty (before puberty, males and females throw similarly). There are some exercises that are great for men but not women - it makes the pelvic bone get weird for some women (can't remember the specifics. Its been 20 years). Considering all this, it is quite possible that women naturally use different movements and different muscle groups to do the same job because of their physical differences. And perhaps this causes less strain. Or maybe it is hormones. You know, or maybe more men shovel than women - they just didn't want to rest on such an assumption when they don't know it to be true.