Does it do any tricks? Besides bleed, I mean
So I ran across this (Youtube link, via Feminist Philosophers) video about women in Parkour and it got me thinking: are there any physical feats (aside from, like, childbirth) where it is an advantage to be female-bodied?
Speaking of the female body in general, rather than specific female bodies, the female body tends to be smaller, (so I guess the physical feat of going through pipes?1) and have a lower centre of gravity, (which must be good for something.) I suppose it might be useful to be female bodied in a starvation situation, since you'd have less mass to maintain, but uh. Oh! Astronauts, there's one: on average, female bodies use less physical resources to stay alive, breathe less, eat less, and if you put them on the right hormones probably drink less, and since they weigh less, it'd be less expensive to get them and their necessities up into space. (And yet female astronauts are a rarity. It's probably because women are in general not as good at manipulating 3D objects in their mind.) The same logic ought to be more or less true for submarine crews too. (And yet. And yet.)
Can anybody think of other examples? I know some jocks are reading this, Robyn.
1. But not dog doors. I've tried this. And I am 12.5 inches across at my widest non-compressible point.
Speaking of the female body in general, rather than specific female bodies, the female body tends to be smaller, (so I guess the physical feat of going through pipes?1) and have a lower centre of gravity, (which must be good for something.) I suppose it might be useful to be female bodied in a starvation situation, since you'd have less mass to maintain, but uh. Oh! Astronauts, there's one: on average, female bodies use less physical resources to stay alive, breathe less, eat less, and if you put them on the right hormones probably drink less, and since they weigh less, it'd be less expensive to get them and their necessities up into space. (And yet female astronauts are a rarity. It's probably because women are in general not as good at manipulating 3D objects in their mind.) The same logic ought to be more or less true for submarine crews too. (And yet. And yet.)
Can anybody think of other examples? I know some jocks are reading this, Robyn.
1. But not dog doors. I've tried this. And I am 12.5 inches across at my widest non-compressible point.