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Unless you are an elite athlete I assure you that there are many women out there who can lift more, with better endurance, than you or I.

If I had to choose to be in a foxhole with a fit 20 year old woman or a flabby 35 year old man, I'm choosing the woman every time. (Even the new, stricter, US military fitness standards are not that hard to meet for either gender)

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Statistically there are very few women out there that can lift even same as an average man. Even a 55 y.o. overweight man is statistically stronger and has more endurance than an average 20 years old woman.

The US combat fitness standard is a 155lb 3-rep max deadlift. That's trivial for every woman I know who lifts.

Perhaps we should amend the law and make every woman you know who lifts to register for SSS.

If you're going to keep conscription around, that would be my opinion.

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