re: "Allow Men To Be Men"

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The research, published in the Journal of Hand Therapy, found that the hands and arms of men aged from 20 to 34 were less strong than those of men measured 30 years ago.

The data is of interest because researchers have found grip strength to be a strong predictor of overall muscular strength and health.

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could this not be blamed on technology?

society, as a whole, does less manual labor these days

Well this article seems legit as frick

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I have yet to see evidence of this IRL

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Come on, Salmon.

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That's because we are allowing our boys to be raised as pussies.

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Clint Eastwood said it best...

I've been saying this for a while. Just look around. Females want the males that they have no respect for, that they can control. Ok, that's fine. But when you're on the street about to get raped, do you think Mr. Skinny Jeans is gonna protect your arse? Hell no. He's gonna run away like a little bitch.

I kid you not, at least once a month my kid makes a grown man say ouch. I've raised him to try to catch people slipping and mash their hands

bunch of pussies

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Come on, Salmon

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I haven't

maybe its because I live in the South in a relatively small town

but I see the kids in my neighborhood and at the parks and the boys are still playing tackle football, playing cowboys and indians, running around hitting each...you know, being boys

could I have find isolated cases? probably, but as a whole? I don't see it

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A new study was released last week showing the millennial male is now physically weaker than his female counterpart.

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sigh

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Almost all men are stronger than almost all women

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Combined grip strength by age and sex. Combined grip strength is the sum of the largest isometric grip strength readings from each hand, measured using a handgrip dynamometer. Grip strength is an index of upper body strength. Each point is one person. Sample size = 7064.
Data are from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011-2012:
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NHANES is a representative sample of the US noninstitutionalized civilian resident population of the United States. It utilizes a complex, multistage, probability sampling design. The sizes of the symbols represent the sampling weights.
The grip strength variables are described here:
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All ages > 80 were set to 80 to protect participant anonymity.

controlling for age, height, and weight, the adult female mean is 23.3 kg less than the adult male mean (without controlling for height and weight, the female mean is 33.8 kg less than the male mean). Adult: 18-60.

Some of the very low values are individuals with disabilities (this is a nationally representative sample).

In these NHANES data, 89% of adult men are stronger than the 89% of adult women.

Grip strength is a decent proxy for upper and lower limb strength, and is also correlated with other indices of strength. Based on other studies, there is a smaller sex difference in lower body strength. Here is the conclusion of one recent study (Bohannon et al. 2012):
The findings of this study suggest that for healthy adults isometric measures of grip and knee extension strength reflect a common underlying construct, that is, limb muscle strength. Nevertheless, differences in activities requiring grip and knee extension strength and the findings of our analysis preclude a blanket advocacy for using either alone to describe the limb muscle strength of tested individuals.
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According to Pheasant (1983), a review of 112 datasets on sex differences in strength, the female/male ratio of lower limb strength is 66%. In chance encounters between a female and male, the female lower limb strength would be greater 12% of the time.

Male strength varies more than female strength: The standard deviation of adult male strength is 17.1 kg; that of adult female strength is 10.5 kg.

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