less/a weaker battle aura to reign in
three headed dog wrote:first look at African tribes that still hunt animals by running them to exhaustion it is always males who do this
Testosterone - promotes the production of haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein found inside red blood cells, and testosterone also increases the concentration of red cells in the blood. The key female sex hormone, oestrogen, has no such effect. So males are getting more oxygen to their cells and therefor can run longer distances than females.
There is a reason why males were the hunters and females were gathers, males are built to go to farther extremes for longer periods of time.
Energy/ Ki is higher in male form in the manga.
The light, weak birds do not rule the sky. They get eaten. Raptors and birds of prey rule and they are strong, fast, and not the lightest of birds. Also stamina means nothing if your over powered in the first few seconds.
Weaker battle aura is not better for the Hiryu Shoten Ha. It doesn't work that way. Ranma is still releasing battle aura only not hot emotionally charged aura, instead cold (so cold that Ryoga comments on it). While he may reign it in some he is mostly making it the opposite temperature (creating a temperature imbalance that forms a tornado).
The mokotakabishi is still more powerful as male than as a female. Two reasons. Ranma is more confident in himself as a male (the emotion he usually uses for his ki blasts) and it is shown that ki blasts of others like Herb are weaker in female form.
In male and female running ability, it is appropriate to ask if there are physiological parameters known to affect athletic ability. In humans and animals, maximal aerobic capacity, the maximum rate at which the body can use oxygen to produce energy, is often used as an index of endurance running ability. This index is significantly greater in men than women, even when body mass is taken into account. The higher maximum aerobic capacity of men vs. women has been verified repeatedly, in young and old, athletic and sedentary. The differences between the sexes that underlie men’s athletic advantage include body composition (percent body fat versus lean body mass), cardiac size, blood volume, and hemoglobin concentration. For a given total body weight, men have more lean body mass and less fat. Men also have larger hearts and a greater maximum cardiac output (liters of blood/minute) then women.
Although women have higher body-fat ratios and presumably a larger emergency energy store, females do not have the muscular power that males have, and that may be the "differentiating factor." When matched for weight, men outrun women by average speeds of 10%.
The fact remains that the performance gap between male and female record holders in the really long running races 50k to 6 days is actually more on the order of 15 to 20%, instead of the 10% difference for the standard distances.
three headed dog wrote:First off, I don't get the bird analogy since the lighter, weaker, or even the ones with greatest stamina are not the ones that will win a fight. The fast, strong, large birds are the ones who do that. It's even arguable that birds rule the sky since bats rule the night and flying insects out number both birds and bats any way you look at it (number, overall weight). Is it supposed to mean that female form would have some type of advantage over male form in the air, even though the higher stats of male form (more leg muscle density/strength = higher jump for example) would pretty much mean that male Ranma would grapple with and then entirely dominate female form Ranma.
There are quite a few books and studies that show males can run faster and longer than females here is the results of one from the book Gender Difference In Running Speed: Humans Versus Horses And Dogs:
The fact remains that the performance gap between male and female record holders in the really long running races 50k to 6 days is actually more on the order of 15 to 20%, instead of the 10% difference for the standard distances.
Almost every study I can find points out to guys running faster and longer. Also the fairly large difference of both height and muscle mass would mean Ranma has both longer legs and more muscle power.
The matriarchal societies (and other societies like the horse nomads of China) that had women hunters because tool use made the differences between sexes moot since a horse bound rider or a bow and arrow more than make up for the differences. For hunting with spears or natural weapons the differences between sexes make a difference.
The Soul of Ice is the part of the Hiryu Shoten Ha that deals with restraining emotions which is step one. You seem to be forgetting the second step called the body of ice (you know the part where you release a cold aura). Ranma was reigning in his emotions but still letting out his now icy aura. Cologne even says that in the volume "by uniting such hot and cold auras" - key word auras. Umisenken involves suppressing the aura and the emotions, not the hiryu shoten ha, for the hiryu shoten ha you have to restrain emotions and let out the (now cold emotionless) aura.
Ranma is more confident in male form, simply because it is his normal form, the form he has had his entire life and he knows his abilities better in that form. Plus looking at the battles Ranma seems to be more confident in his male form (at least to me).
Even if that was the case, Ranma still would have weaker ki while female according to Feng Shui since Yang is about power, brashness, and direct energy and yin is about being subtle, thoughtful and indirect energy.
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