Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.231.46.205-20151112031449/@comment-2601:2C6:8100:229F:B1B7:CF9:E014:369F-20180727062814

Except that the young lady who won Ninja cannot prevail against a similarly trained man. Look, at this point it's simply biology. When it comes to grey matter, a brain is a brain, be it in a male or female body, so I think all homo sapiens are on an equal footing there. The body, however, is another thing. Humans exhibit sexual dimorohism. One gender is bigger and stronger than the other on average. This means the strongest women will never rival the strongest men. We KNOW this. It's why we don't expect women to compete with men in the NBA, NFL, MMA etc. It's safe to say the grounder society was thrust back into the iron age. Strength prevailed then, especially since it isn't mutually exclusive to intelligence. They all had the same mental capacities, but needed the extra physical strength to survive. The post modern egalitarianism only works because we live in a civil society where technology and law neutralize the need for strength. That's, for example, why so many of us CAN afford to be obese and handicapped and who knows what else. Progress gives us the luxury of equal opportunity, a luxury grounders certainly didn't have. We all know the show is B.S. Octavia outgroundering the grounders, Clarke ambush killing a freaking jaguar?! Come on, man! Still, it's a fun show so...