Originally posted by dadudemon
I agree. My bad...sort of.An out of shape middle aged man beat a world class athlete in basketball... Mine was a non-chalant anecdotal contrast: a trained male athlete pales in comparison to the world's TOP athletes in both power lifting and track and field. Far from a total misreading...but still not completely comparable.
It was also to draw attention to the higher end feats for women to make "zomg" moments when people saw how strong these women get.
I see what you were saying
but, the middle aged guy thing wasn't the crux of my point. I admit, him beating a WNBA player (lets not forget, strength aside, he is going to be bigger, and more able to move through her and rush the basket [also, I was careful to note that he was both formerly athletic and knowledgeable in the game]) says nothing about men and women in general. Like I have said, I don't think this would apply to me playing hockey against the worlds best females (though I would probably dominate them in the corners/front of the net) or to any 2 particular people in general.
The main point was, in a statistical analysis of performance, top level female athletes perform about as well as top level 16 year old male athletes. And to be honest, 16 isn't all that young. Saying this, it wouldn't be impossible that the strongest individual woman could be stronger than all other men, or that a single WNBA player could beat all men, just that, when taken as a whole, the average female athlete has strength comparable to the average 16 year old male.