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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 4165510" data-attributes="member: 3929">It's not that WotC lacks the imagination, it's that they're aware enough not to touch the gender issue with your 10-foot pole. Else they'd get proverbially lynched.As a rowing coach I can weigh in on this with stuff from my sport. World champion women rowers possess builds that would squish most men, even most athletic men. They are consistently tall, broad shouldered, hugely muscled, and very lean. But they cannot bring as much leverage to the <a href="http://www.gymcor.com/con2inrowmod.html?productid=con2inrowmod&channelid=FROOG" target="_blank">erghandle</a> as even college male rowers can. A woman's center of gravity is closer her hips than a man's because of her bone structure and the biologic necessity of childbirth; this means that a woman will not be able to suspend as much weight on the handle as an equally heavy higher-center-of-gravity male rower.You may argue that this only proves that males have an advantage in rowing because of their build, and not because they are inherently stronger; but this clearly illustrates that the differences in the body structure between males and females result in significantly different power outputs in rowing. As rowing uses every single muscle group, does this not suggest that males have an inherent physical advantage when it comes to strength?For illustration: Georgina Evers-Swindell is a Kiwi who formerly held the 2000m indoor-rowing machine world record at 6 minutes 28.5 seconds. She is a glory to behold rowing in her double scull with her (ever so slightly weaker) twin sister Caroline. But 5 of the guys on my university college crew pulled faster 2ks than that; and we weren't that fast, relatively speaking. For her male counterpart, Rob Waddell is the heavyweight men's world record holder with a time of 5:36.6.</blockquote>

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