Why Women Act That Way

August 23, 2003 4:22 PM

Why are women so clumsy at pitching a ball and running? Lay it to bone structure. The reason most women can't pitch an efficient overhand may be connected with the "carrying angle" of their arms. The average woman's arms are more bent at the elbow than a man's. This may help to cause the stiff downward motion in ball-throwing that men find so hilarious. Finally, an article that definitively answers all the questions men have about the fairer sex: Why Women Act That Way. From Reader's Digest circa 1966.
posted by hipnerd (8 comments total)

Originally from 1956 McCall's article. Still, some of the stereotypes hold true nearly fifty years later.
posted by jonson at 4:29 PM on August 23, 2003

Our hips are wider so we can have babies. So what if we run funnier.
posted by konolia at 4:48 PM on August 23, 2003

Women have learned that when they're cornered it's smarter for them to take to superior guerrilla tactics - word power and imagination.

hehe... true. true. and jonson, seriously? this article is actually from 1956? wow!
posted by poopy at 4:53 PM on August 23, 2003

Women have learned that when they're cornered it's smarter for them to take to superior guerrilla tactics - word power and imagination.

All the word power and imagination in the world mean nothing if you throw like a girl.
posted by riviera at 5:02 PM on August 23, 2003

(Just in case anyone missed the heavy irony there, here's James Fallows writing on the subject in the Atlantic Monthly, rubbishing the 'anatomically different' argument.)
posted by riviera at 5:05 PM on August 23, 2003

Hipnerd, this your third self-link on the FrontPage in a row. Please knock this shit off. MetaFilter isn't made for you to promote your website.
posted by dgaicun at 5:13 PM on August 23, 2003

hee hee! busted!
posted by quonsar at 6:02 PM on August 23, 2003

Not only does this reaffirm my belief that 2003 is new 1999 and e/n sites are the future of personal publishing... but it convinces me that the best way to promote a web site is link it on other sites, extra Google juice is granted if the rules explicitly bar self links.
posted by cedar at 8:32 PM on August 23, 2003