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I think I know what you're saying, but I'm worried that someone will now read it as saying that the 4'9" woman can do the guard/prisoner-control job as well as the 6' guy, as long as we perceive her to be as able. 'Taint so. (Likewise for the 4'9" guy, of course.)

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If there are already those strength/skill requirements in place, why should female guards (who have to have met the requirements in order to have the job) be excluded from guarding the jail (and, specifically, at night, but not during the day)?

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Have all strength-type requirements been abolished and now the rule is "perceive"?

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now you're just trolling for a "objective maximum weight" comment, aren't you? Well, the nice new hank won't go there.

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Puh-leaze. I have no worries. I can just sit on them.

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Answering both posts - best example is the firefighter situation. Strength and speed requirements were in place for years - which excluded almost all women. Court rulings started to say, requirements are thus invalid. Too much of an outcry, (because they were job-related requirements), so subsequent rulings began to change the scope and harshness of the requirements, to the point where a large percentage of the women taking the test could pass.

So, basically, there still are tests, but they pretty much just exclude the halt.

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Quit with the fancy talk, Harvard-boy.

Are a lot of firefighters now incapable of doing their jobs? Or had the bars been set higher than they needed to be? I tend not to read the sad stuff in the paper, but I don't see a lot of stories about "people burned to death in building because firefighters [no matter which sex] not capable of rescuing them because too weak."

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Depends on who you talk to. I don't think the job doesn't get done - but I have heard (second, third hand) that some of the guys resent having to do the bulk of the heavy lifting - which, of course, could simply be an attitude problem about women on "a guy's job", too.

I can tell you that the comp reports for the women in those jobs aren't good. Lots of strain injuries.

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I've heard stories that if we didn't have so many chick soldiers we would have gotten to Baghdad BEFORE they moved the WMDs.

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I never thought I'd see the day that Hank criticized Bush's Iraq war strategy.

When I was living in Japan, new clubs in Roppongi (place full of night clubs where all the gaijin hung out) would always hire Japanese body guards. Despite the influence of video games and movies, there is not much violence in Japan. Most Japanese males have never been in a fight. These bouncers were always trained in martial arts and had "security" certificates. In most of the clubs in Japan, they have sections where girls can sit and guys are not allowed. To make it so the girls don't have to be harassed. There was always some drunk Marine or Australian that didn't like to be told to leave the "grils" section and they would hospitalize the poor Japanese body guard who told them to leave. Then the club would hire some Yakuza (Japanese gangsters who are supposed to be tough) and then the Yakusa would get pummeled also. Finally the club would hire some large american servicemen in their off hours and order would be restored. But in the three years I was there I must have seen fifteen clubs go through this evolution.

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Aw, hell, on this issue you can speak for me.

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POTD. Bravo!

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More on the Texas law and this particular case by one of the bill's drafters.

Hank is pretty sure those clubs were just created that way. It's a Shinto thing; you wouldn't understand.