tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28989955.post1124534034593820521..comments2023-10-30T14:34:16.722-07:00Comments on Men Need Feminism: Five Paces BehindJeff Pollethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13789663140920958914noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28989955.post-48761989170676757652007-07-12T09:45:00.000-07:002007-07-12T09:45:00.000-07:00Thanks anonymous, that's a good point. I have no p...Thanks anonymous, that's a good point. I have no problem with the most athletic person not walking in front--that makes a lot of sense. My problem is a guy struggling along out front (which is why I said <I>straining</I>--not that he was out front, but that he was, in fact, struggling out there in front. If the sort of thing that you're suggesting were going on in that situation, I would have expected him to be walking along at his pace, not struggling...Jeff Pollethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13789663140920958914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28989955.post-44848107374688528482007-07-11T18:19:00.000-07:002007-07-11T18:19:00.000-07:00... straining to walk faster than he might want to...<I><BR/>... straining to walk faster than he might want to, because his wife was in obviously better shape than he was...why on earth not let her lead? Ah, the standards of male masculinity.</I><BR/><BR/>If you want to keep a group of people walking in line together you shouldn't let the strongest/fastest walk first as that person would certainly outpace the slower ones unless the first person is constantly checking on the progress on those behind and adjusting his/her speed down accordingly. This is actually much harder to do than one would think. Awareness of this may save lives ie. when caught by bad weather when skiing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com