by PriamNevhausten » Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:34 am
That's based on the theory that muscle fatigue and soreness are due to a buildup of lactic acid, which women are theoretically better at storing and processing due to active mammary glands. This has since been shown to be unlikely; mechanisms of muscle fatigue are more related to tissue damage and osmosis than lactic acid. Of course, that rules out just that one theory; it's entirely possible that women are indeed capable of greater feats of endurance than men, but I have not seen or heard of evidence to support (or, for that matter, to contradict).
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru