"Girl" Pushups????

likitisplit

In your response here, you made sweeping generalizations and completely unfounded statements. You then went on to link a medical journal article that was not relevant to the sexist nature of deeming modified push-ups "girl push-ups". I simply addressed both your crappy "reality bites" attitude about sexism and your misinterpretation of the medical journal article, as well as pointed out it's complete and utter irrelevance to the topic of the thread.

Okay, so you've determined that "Women are the weaker sex." (presumably overall) based upon the fact that men have greater explosive muscular strength and endurance.

Scientific American says you're wrong. (The following link is relevant to you being wrong about women being the "weaker" sex.)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-men-the-weaker-sex/

Finally, you haven't been blasted, you've been corrected. Your reading comprehension is severely lacking, but I didn't feel the need to be patronizing. I'm sorry you've felt the need to be. It doesn't, however, make you right.

Again, you failed to read the context. The linked study on strength levels in prepubescent strength levels was in response to someone speaking about her judo class and that prepubescent children should have the same level of strength because men haven't hit puberty yet. That is all my link addressed. It was 100% relevant to the discussion. A discussion entirely separate from what you're discussing.
The irony of your post is fantastic

the girls at my judo club = girls who are told that they can and should be able to do full push ups.... 100% of them could

the girls in the average school include all the girls who are not encouraged to do stuff like that.... so it's not surprising that a lot of them couldn't

none of the girls in my judo club were cherry-picked for strength. I didn't grow up in the Soviet Union... none of the kids in my judo club were stronger at the start.... but we were stronger than other kids at school, because we trained...

I also think you're drastically underestimating how much strength gains people of either gender, pre or post puberty can get from the right kind of training............... or you're not considering this at all in this discussion.

Note: this poster doesn't say that strength is or should be the same between boys/girls or men/women.

What she says is that a full pushup is a reasonable expectation for healthy, fully-mobile children and adults no matter what their gender.

If a person is unable to perform a full pushup, the answer is to help them build up to one, not provide one sex encouragement to under-rate their strength based on gender stereotypes.