I used to play a lot of rugby before too much schoolwork got in the way, and it always cracked me up to watch women's rugby, especially after a men's rugby game. It was like watching regular rugby in slow motion. The girls would make "tackles" that were basically two-handed touch, a girl would feel somebody grab her leg and she'd drop to avoid getting injured. Even so, there were probably twice as many knee and back injuries on the girl's team compared to the dudes. No matter what we tried, the girls just wouldn't go into the gym as often as the dudes either, and once they'd go, they'd never squat or deadlift or overhead press, just play around on the Bosu balls and do crunches.
We once had a guy latch onto a girl's team because they were short a player and he ran circles around both girl's teams. He wasn't anywhere near our best guy either, probably our third-fastest back, just a skinny bastard who never made any tackles to my knowledge, and he's just blitz right through their best forwards and score without ever being close to tackled. He gave one of the girls a minor concussion with a stiff arm. The dudes and I would drink beer on the sidelines and yell hilarious shit like "Go easy on them, Mark, they've never been with a man!" That was also the first time I'd seen one guy go up against four girls in a rolling maul and just annihilate them without much assistance. We asked him later how it was, he said it was like tackling and/or getting tackled by clouds.
We all knew that if you threw in a men's lock (my position) or flanker into the women's rugby game that there'd be like twenty injuries on the enemy team and no defense they put up outside of getting kicked in the nads would slow us down much. Speaking of which, one of the girls tried because they were getting mad at being rolled.
That's why I can't take women in the military seriously. I'm a pretty average forward on the men's rugby team, and if I can destroy dudes during practice who run trains on entire women's rugby teams, the whole "women can be just as tough as men" argument just seems like bullshit to me. Maybe in Hollywood, but not in real life.
