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Originally Posted by gmw
No, it's not fair, but F=MA means Force = Mass x Acceleration and your argument only covers mass. Besides which a physical tussle between two individuals is more complicated than that (unless you have one jumping off a wardrobe to land on another). Sure Hollywood exaggerates things for its own ends, but you are simplifying things to the other extreme - which is equally ridiculous. Pick two random individuals and the stronger (not necessarily the heavier) is probably a good bet in a close-in fight, but in a story like this one of the individuals are not random - their attributes are up to the author.
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GMW:
As someone of the "weaker" sex who served her country with more-than-fairly good training in hand-to-hand, (not counting other training I may have after my service), I'll stand by my argument. I'm not oversimplifying it. Tell me what your fighting or hand-to-hand combat background is, or sport-fighting, so I can understand your frame of reference, and we can discuss it, which will probably benefit the forum and the writers here. I mean, if you're talking about judo, sure, there's some flexibility there that doesn't exist in a fistfight. But whether it's reach, the strength behind a punch, the delivery, the weight imbalance, etc., the scales of power overcoming good intentions or even good training is heavily tipped toward the male side of the scale.
And I don't care if we want to take gender out of the discussion; in short, a guy Cruise's size can't take on a guy Hemsworth's size, for the same reasons. Hemsworth would pick up Cruise, who, btw, is far smaller than I am, and throw him across the room. It's mass and power and strength. Throw in, boxing-wise, the increased upper-body strength of males over females, no matter how much weight-lifting the female does...well...like I said previously. (It's a bit like watching Michelle Rodriquez "kick ass." I mean, sure, for her size, "tough chick," but whenever I see her hit some big guy, I start laughing aloud, due to how silly it is. More than a bug-bite, sure, but enough to knock a guy the size of your average Federal Marshal out?
Nyyyyyyyyyyyah.)
Interesting conversation!! So, GMW, boxing? Judo, another martial art? TKD, Thai Kickboxing? What's your particular brand of poison? Are you still doing it, or...?
Hitch