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Oh dear.
Based on national averages, a 40-year-old woman should be able to do 16 push-ups and a man the same age should be able to do 27. By the age of 60, those numbers drop to 17 for men and 6 for women. Those numbers are just slightly less than what is required of Army soldiers who are subjected to regular push-up tests.
I exercise frequently and even take weight training classes (think me lifting 5 lb weights to a DJ’d version of Justin, not me and big, burly men hoisting 50 lb barbells) but I’m not even sure if I can do 16 proper push-ups. How can that be the national average? We’re the land of fries, flub and fat.
only in europe
French ad for Ripolin paint:
“Your walls deserve a paint that will age well.”
oh. my. gosh.
I literally just exclaimed, “Who the f– is this??” after reading this article in The Washington Post.
It’s not often that I speak to myself.
This Charlotte Allen figure writes in her op-ed, “We Scream, We Swoon, how Dumb Can We Get?” that:
“[I] wonder whether women — I should say, “we women,” of course — aren’t the weaker sex after all. Or even the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial.”
and…
“The theory that women are the dumber sex — or at least the sex that gets into more car accidents — is amply supported by neurological and standardized-testing evidence.”
and finally:
“Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.”
WHO IS THIS??? Incredible. I fight urges to call myself a feminist, because I think feminists are oft-characterized as angry, tempestuous women. And I’m not. But how can a woman be so brazen to write such a horrifying article? And what male editor at the Post let it pass through to press?
And slightly related, the Center for Media and Public Affairs reports that from 12/16 to 2/19, the three major networks aired newscasts that were 84% positive for Obama and 53% for Clinton. Sad.
