Yes, Women in Dragon Age Could Use Longswords

[Lightknight]

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Power lifting form for a bench press is a different beast to how a bodybuilder might do it. The arch of the back is normal form taken to an extreme thanks to young flexibility. Your butt and your upper back are supposed to touch the bench but your spine can be as curved as you want. You can even see it in that video you deemed honest lifting shes arching her back just not to an extreme. Powerlifting is all about the form that gives more drive, whilst a bodybuilder may lay more flat on the bench to get less drive and more time under tension for his muscles.

http://www.capopowerlifting.com.au/files/WPC%20Rule%20book%20Official%20Website%202011%20%282%29.pdf

(its on page 8 according to the pdf program and page 11 going by the label)

The arching of the back isn't the problem. It's the foot placement. That far back makes your body behave sort of like a bow and lets the lifter use other muscles in the body to lift that amount.

Like I said, it's also how far she's taking the bar down and putting it back up. It's not a legal bench she's performing.

There are women who can honestly lift those weights. She just isn't one of them.

 

[white_wolf]

I find it sad you needed to write this article that there is actually an argument that says cuz girl = no can do in a game. Women play the games yet are excluded from them at the sametime told only a man can do this cuz creators said so which is bull, its basically the designers can't envision or don't want to. Yes women can wield swords but the prerequisite for having women characters or heros shouldn't be because they can or can't do that in real life otherwise we wouldn't have male stories either because 99% of the men playing them can't do the things they're being asked to in the game's story or sidequests anyway yet oddly we don't get the narrative of well no a man can't pick up a humvee and hurl it at his enemies thats way to unrealistic only a woman can do that! Usually we get the opposite even if IRL it'd be unrealistic for both sexes to do that.

 

[Haerthan]

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Women do make testosterone. Their ovaries and adrenal glands make it.

Yeah, but I also didn't say they didn't. Women also have muscles and are perfectly capable of performing most tasks that men can perform even if they're at a disadvantage of doing so as efficiently. But the difference in amounts produced is significant. Surely you're not dismissing the impact testosterone has as a steroid in males? Women produce 5-10% the amount that men produce.

Also don't ever piss of a woman, or get between her and her children, she will murder you with whatever tools she has at hands.

Holy crap, ever seen a fight between girls? They're like whirlwinds with nails flying and gnashing of teeth. Their intent appears to be to maim or damage the other rather than to just overcome them like a lot of male fights I've seen. Terrifying, really. But I've also seen the other way around where a man is intent on fighting back and once the switch is flipped and the man is pushed to defending himself the woman had better have better training or better tools at her disposal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPtPbAPNgU

The general sentiment is universal that men can't hit women. Ever wonder why that's a strong belief? Do you think it's just Victorian era residue or due to the power disparity?

Please understand that I am not calling women weak. I am saying that they are weaker in comparison to men. But not weak in general. There's a huge difference there.

I do like how you use the word "truth". Truth is a relative thing.

No, it's not. The sky is blue because of the wavelengths we see. Facts are truth. Opinions are relative. Whoever started claiming that truth is relative defeated themselves the moment they made an absolute (aka, non-relative) claim about the nature of truth being relative. Relative truth is seldom used in debate by the honest and objective.

Yes we can acknowledge that women are 50% weaker than men. But we must ensure that we never ever go back to the ideals of the Victorian era, otherwise we are no better than savages.

I agree that we should never return to the mentality that anyone is second class. But I hardly think Victorian era people were savages .

And when I said we can override our sexual dimorphism using our brains I MEANT WE CAN THINK ABOUT IT to develop plans to override nature, not use our brains to influence our growth and development. There is a reason for our dominance of the earth.

Ah, so we could use science to overcome sexual dimorphism. That makes far more sense than it purely being a mental task to overcome.

As I asked before, do you think we should? Do you think it is right to alter an infant female to be more like a man? I find that notion incredibly sexist. Like admitting that women are inferior to men and need to be genetically modified to be equal. I just don't agree with that at all. Sounds like an extreme form of sexism, really, and I'm surprised to hear that come from a woman.

I still believe women could use longswords, they just had less endurance as you say, because of a lack of training. Regardless of the technique at play.

Ok, then we aren't disagreeing.

I am actually a guy. And personally I believe in exoskeletons. The idea of using genetic engineering is a logical extreme of our belief that we are the top of the food chain on the earth (i forgot the word for it, but environmentalists are very much against it). I would use genetic engineering, but only if necessary and with the permission of the person involved. It would be a personal choice.

Also I can easily think that the Victorian era (mainly Great Britain, since that term applies only to it) was filled with savages: the spread of the empire, the complete disregard of human rights for women and subsequent literature treating women as children (read Bram Stoker's Dracula for a pretty fucking good example), the Industrial Revolution and its use of slave labour (being paid so little it wasn't enough for day to day survival). Let us not even talk of the ethnic cleansing of Ireland, Africa and other places where the Brits were active. So yea fuck the Victorian era.