xena warrior princess

XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS
Okay, you have to admit the comments from yesterday were pretty friggin hilarious. I like Ho Ho's. Hostess comments only! I like Ho Ho's. My face still hurts from laughing ( no, trolls, not from looking in the mirror- I am as a delicate wine, improving with age ). Perhaps a spoof on the trolls inane repetition? Today I will regale you with more of my thoughts, and I know you are all kind of looking at me weird, perhaps lifting an eyebrow or two. Too polite to come and and say it, so I'll bring it up for you. Yes, I know the posts most of the week were a little strange. Last weekend I read a couple of very good books on anthropology and culture and I got all excited and clapped my hands together in glee and wrote out a long list of related items you have been reading. What can I say? When a topic interests me you have to suffer through it. The only thing I have left is the subject of culture itself, a mechanism that serves the same function as instinct in animals. It allows us a wide variety of survival activities that are automatic with no thought needed ( perhaps explaining how so many idiots are able to survive ). If I don't have a topic one day next week you'll be subjected to that. Today, the odds against females being warriors outside of a special set of circumstances.
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Looking at farming in general, the easier the labor in planting seed the closer the equality of the sexes. In hard ground that required heavy physical labor and a plow the males mostly dominated. In areas with much easier planting methods such as certain rice areas, females were less oppressed. When life sustaining farming could be done by either gender, both were valued. When staying alive meant hard physical labor, males were valued higher. Whoever was able to feed people had the superior position. We regard agriculture today as a given, just another industry. Take away oil and farming becomes the most important thing in your life. Every small advantage is utilized to assure you don't starve. If giving males a dominant position assures more crops, that is what happens. Now, if females can't perform the seriously hard labor of plowing a field, what in the name of all that is just and holy gives you the idea they can go all ninja and chop suey enemies with a sword? And don't go all femi-Nazi on me. We've already talked about this yesterday. Wishful thinking, preferences, morality and political correctness don't keep you alive. Reality sucks, start thinking about turning off American Idol and start thinking about your future. All unpleasant future activity is going to have to be accepted. Get used to the idea now and you won't be shocked later.
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Next up we visit a non-Soviet tract and field event ( the Soviets being notorious for engineering muscular hairy "women" athletes ) and discover, quite shockingly to the American public school system indoctrinated zombie, that males and females are not the same. How utterly shocking. You mean females can't lift a two hundred and fifty pound man unconscious from smoke inhalation and carry him from a burning building? A female can't match the strength of an assailant in a law enforcement position? How could this have happened? How can women not be the same as men? We all know how superior women are, so let's just keep a few caged men around for an artificial insemination program ( we wouldn't want a male member to come near us!! ). Wow, what a shocker. Men and women have different physical capabilities. Who would have thought? Put a bra back on and put down the birth control pills and sit down on that news. Maybe a female counselor can free up a session to hear all about how traumatised you are. Poor dear. Turns out, there is a 15%-20% difference in physical performance by gender in the track and field sport. Yes, it might be an obvious statement to some of us, but some idiots living in oblivion have no idea their pet theories are full of crap until you show them an actual scientific study giving these kinds of statistics.
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Now, realistically, what society is going to willingly operate at a twenty percent disadvantage militarily so that females can be equal ( don't get me started on how females want to have one hundred percent equality and then be able to pick and choose what responsibilities go along with that )? Answer-none. Xena Warrior Princess is a male fantasy show catering to wet dreams of males wishing their wives weren't so fat and weren't too weak to take out the trash. With the obligatory fem cat fight thrown in. I also include most of S.M. Sterling's books. Don't get me wrong, he is a superb author and I feel like an ass that when I first criticised his books for the anti-gun aspect I didn't make that more clear. He writes such good stories I forgive him for that. But he also represents the modern feminized, sterilized American male that slavishly follows his significant other around on all fours kissing their ass 24/7 and making a fool of himself ( and yes, I used to do the same thing ). He subscribes to the myth of the mighty female warrior. I like Linda Hamilton in Terminator just as much as the next guy, but at least there is a modicum of reality in her character.
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If a female has weapons at her disposal that negate the physical strength differences between the genders then she can make an adequate warrior. I say adequate because females are not brought up in the same culture as males. There is not the social pressure to kill. In general females will still perform poorly compared to males even with modern weapons because of this. I'm not saying that in a family defensive position a female can't perform admirably. They can. I am saying that they shouldn't be on the battlefield. Ask yourselves this question. Why didn't the Soviet Union draft women for combat roles after World War Two? When the nation was in danger of defeat, females became soldiers. But not after. And equality was first widely adopted in the Soviet Union. So why weren't females asked to continue in combat after the countries survival was assured? And why was their combat roles even back in the war curtailed to some degree? And why did Israel stop putting females in combat roles? There had to be a good reason.
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Now, put aside physical strength and move on to pregnancy. Before modern birth control, aborting a fetus was dangerous. As was child birth. Not to speak of the trauma of infanticide. What happens when half your Xena squads drop out to pop kids, or gets sick after an abortion and becomes indisposed, or dies in child birth? You become militarily vulnerable. If you persist in believing the female warrior fantasy even after the collapse you are placing your group in danger. Men and women are different. Accept the fact for goodness sake. Nothing wrong with being different. Try being different and looking at things rationally and realistically. And, please, I beg you, listen to what I said. Without modern weapons females are not the match for male warriors. Modern firearms will level the playing field so don't tell me how your darling wife places five shots in the bulls eye at five hundred yards. I'm speaking of physical and psychological differences. Rant off.
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