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Ugh. Fuck this writer and their gender essentialism all to fucking Hell. "Men are built to be strong" is only true if you define "strong" as "those areas in which men are stronger".
Women have a higher pain tolerance, a higher resistance to disease, higher endurance, and can easily train to be as strong at lifting, etc. as men of their size since the strong muscles are the "slow twitch" muscles that aren't bulked out while the weaker muscles are the bulky "fast twitch" muscles.
Men have the edge in speed: running, etc. Not in capacity strength. And CERTAINLY not in endurance, resistance, pain tolerance, etc.
Men could also use their strength to do the laundry, instead of starting another war... To add to the pain tolerance, my husband is surprised, that I did not want to see a doctor (free health care) for my broken toe, and that I just said, yeah might be broken, but it's ok, no big deal.
preach
the author did not claim endurance, resistance, or pain tolerance were advantages of men.
I think the much more interesting part of this article is not the random sex-realism at the start. It's how she characterizes how the male experience seems to her as a woman dating men.