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to everybody saying that women are naturally physically weaker than men:
look at the gendered construction of eating and nutrition. during the most formative years of our lives little boys are expected to be more active and roughhousey than women and thus their parents often supply them with larger portions and specifically bigger cuts of meat than little girls. this continues into adulthood where large raw steaks are considered manly and girls are conditioned to prefer lighter foods and smaller sizes. women spend their lives malnourished due to men getting larger portions of food, and this happens across nearly all ages, races and cultures. the few cultures where women did the physical work and thus demanded the lion's share of the food recorded women being tall and strong while their men were rather stunted in their growth.
you give me a girl that from infancy is given the exact same diet and level of physical exercise as a boy and i will give you an adult woman that is the same size and strength as an adult man.
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In your defense, yes, boys are raised differently. Sometimes they participate in different activities. Usually, girls are discouraged from sports and things early in life. This is not always the case. In most first-world modern countries, divisions between genders in childhood years (0-10) lie mostly in toys, fashion, and role models. Super extremely seldom in food, exercise, health, or wealth distribution.
BUUUUT
sounds like you need a
little gigantic lesson in hormones!
Gender differences in metabolism: practical and nutritional implications
Incredibly simplified summary:
Hormones are chemicals internally secreted within a person's body (or many other organisms ... but will not get into that). They are produced in the
endocrine system.
Sex hormones, also known as gonadal steroids, are produced mainly in the reproductive system. The hormones produced by the gonads (in males) are different from those produced by the ovaries (in females).
The main hormones that affect gender differences are:
- Testosterone (mostly produced by gonads (males))
- Estrogen (mostly produced by ovaries (females))
- Progesterone (mostly produced from menstruation (females))
Males will make a relatively small amount of estrogen at any given time, and females will make a relatively small amount of testosterone at any given time. But not a huge amount.
This is specified in a person's
chromosomes. (Women have XX sex chromosomes, and males have XY.)
Sometimes there are differences or errors on a genetic level, but the majority of people follow this biological template.
Very simply, this is what these hormones do:
TESTOSTERONE:
- Babies/children: Grows male genitals/reproductive centers.
- Instigates and/or inhibits hair manufacture, physical growth, body odor.
- Facilitates chemicals responsible for muscle/tissue breakdown and repair (causes denser muscle/bone structure).
- Neurologically associates: anger, dominance, energy, libido
- Increases energy output from tissue & brain
- Speeds up metabolism & fat burn.
- Increases blood pressure.
ESTROGEN:
- Babies/children: Grows female genitals/reproductive centers & breasts.
- Instigates and regulates the endometrium (uterine lining - menstruation), vaginal lubrication, and pheomelanin (redness in skin/blushing).
- Facilitates chemicals responsible for fat storage and water retention (causes weaker muscle/bone structure).
- Neurologically associates: sadness, obsession, awareness
- Decreases calcium amounts in blood derived from bone resorption
- Slows down metabolism & fat burn.
- (May) decrease blood pressure & improve lung function.
Progesterone is created during the menstrual and gestation (pregnancy) cycles. For the purpose of this discussion, it mostly just causes further fat/water retention.
Super Short tl;dr Summary:
Men produce a lot of testosterone. It activates during puberty. Testosterone increases strength & endurance. It strengthens muscle tissue. It makes them taller.
Women produce a lot of estrogen. It activates during puberty. Estrogen increases fat deposits & water retention. It weakens muscle tissue. It slows height growth.
AND SO:
No, if you had a typical boy and a typical girl of a similar ethnic background, of similar size at birth, both raised identically their whole lives, and never given artificial or medical steroids, at adulthood, they would NOT have the same physical strength.
Not even a little close.
(and the male would likely be taller. (perhaps a lot taller.))
Sorry