Not that I disagree with you in principle, but in this specific situation does she not have a gun, a taser, pepper spray, anything? Unlike a scenario where she is, say, ambushed while patrolling, the men don’t even pay attention to her. She has the option to approach this situation with any tool available to her out of what she has on her belt and in her car that might help make up for her physical disadvantage and she doesn’t. She also doesn’t seem to have any sense of fear or urgency. I suspect this is not merely “woman technically passed the tests but is outmatched by men,” but “woman did not even pass the tests, but is allowed through because woman.”
does she not have a gun, a taser, pepper spray, anything?
That's actually one problem with female cops. Because they lack the strength and therefore the confidence to get physical they're more likely to use excessive force when shit goes down. It gets people killed, and naturally no one gives a shit unless the dead guy is black.
That’s why I was saying pepper spray and taser but yes, that’s an issue as well. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a confidence problem, though; I would call it a sudden, reality-enforced assessment of the lack of tools available to a given female officer, performed far later than it should have been, to the detriment of everyone involved.
Men and women, generally speaking, have entirely different risk aversion profiles. Testosterone is directly implicated. Men also have considerably faster reaction times, better spatial reasoning and coordination, and considerably higher upper body strength for a reason. This isn't the result of a lack of life experience, this is the result of thousands of years of evolution.
Outliers exist, but generally speaking, women are not suited to such roles.
Not that I disagree with you in principle, but in this specific situation does she not have a gun, a taser, pepper spray, anything? Unlike a scenario where she is, say, ambushed while patrolling, the men don’t even pay attention to her. She has the option to approach this situation with any tool available to her out of what she has on her belt and in her car that might help make up for her physical disadvantage and she doesn’t. She also doesn’t seem to have any sense of fear or urgency. I suspect this is not merely “woman technically passed the tests but is outmatched by men,” but “woman did not even pass the tests, but is allowed through because woman.”
That's actually one problem with female cops. Because they lack the strength and therefore the confidence to get physical they're more likely to use excessive force when shit goes down. It gets people killed, and naturally no one gives a shit unless the dead guy is black.
That’s why I was saying pepper spray and taser but yes, that’s an issue as well. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a confidence problem, though; I would call it a sudden, reality-enforced assessment of the lack of tools available to a given female officer, performed far later than it should have been, to the detriment of everyone involved.
I think that's overly optimistic.
Men and women, generally speaking, have entirely different risk aversion profiles. Testosterone is directly implicated. Men also have considerably faster reaction times, better spatial reasoning and coordination, and considerably higher upper body strength for a reason. This isn't the result of a lack of life experience, this is the result of thousands of years of evolution.
Outliers exist, but generally speaking, women are not suited to such roles.