To think if I need a body guard, I want a man

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Just from the footage of Trump's near assassination. Just made me think, if need a body guard, whose job it is to take a bullet for me, I want that bodyguard to be really, really big, so that his body is way bigger than mine, so it covers mine. Also seen other footage of bodyguards protecting people in a mob, and they only got their charge out because they were just so physically massive, they could force their way through.

Its a job where physical size and bulk matter. I'd just want a man, an unusually big and strong man, to do it.

"whose job it is to take a bullet for me"

Surely this is only one aspect of the job and a pretty small aspect for a president (if you ignore a recency bias)

Most of their job should be assessing threatsfrom a tactical perspective. There's literally no scenario whereby trump should be overcome by a mob given the vetting of individuals he'll be in contact with, the ring fencing of him from the general public and other security measures.

The failings around this assassination attempt were in all the other aspects rather than the taking a bullet for him realm. After the first shot he's covered and nobody manages to shoot him again, so they didn't fail in their duties due to size.

If I was a normal celebrity with a small security detail, potentially unarmed and where I live my life in a way that necessitates more engagement general public I probably want a brick shit house though

Well I'm 5ft so any size bodyguard can cover me.

Taller wouldn't be a problem for me, but getting a gym bunny male bodyguard that was wider might be a bit difficult apart from the shoulders, which I imagine would be several inches above me anyway.

But luckily no one needs to protect this short middle aged potato from assassination.

However, some women are built on the right lines. If I wanted a female bodyguard, Brienna of Tarn would be a good choice. Bit of a fun vampire, but good in a crises.

Where did I say anything even remotely insulting towards you?

I dunno if you have a woman like Laurel Hubbard, you would be fine 😂

Anyway it's all to do with diversity and equality.

But if you’re an average woman, a bigger/musclier than average woman would be enough to protect you. If small women hog all the big burly male security, who will protect big burly men 😂 I think I’m overthinking this. Reminds me of my tall female friend who got (jokingly) annoyed when she saw short women with men over a foot taller than them.

Nope, but if people are going to clearly be slagging me for daring to say in some roles, sex matters - and to apparently do so from a feminist perspective, then I am going to point out potential hypocrisy.

I am not making any comment on trans people ( tell me where I have?). I am pointing out hypocrisy of those slagging me

How do you feel about female police officers, soldiers, security guards and fire fighters?

YABU. I’m 5’8” and really fat, so could probably absorb more rounds than a 6’ 3” skinny bloke.

You're loving a lot of things on this thread OP.

Actually in a lot of situations women make better bodyguards but in many (maybe most?) the reverse is true. Id be keen to have the best person for the job or jobs.

Your whole thread is an exercise in 'slagging' women, whatever that means.

So you've come at this thread in an 'anti-feminist' perspective and are now crying boo-hoo.

I'm getting slagged for pointing out that in roles where physical bulk and strength matter, that men have a distinct advantage. Presumably people are slagging me from a feminist perspective. Men have a greater average bulk and strength. That's not the same as saying an individual man has greater strength than an individual woman. I would want someone strong, fit, quick thinking. I couldn't care a damn about their sex.

That's a valid point.

I am sure those women would have done a grand job elsewhere. But as part of the security detail immediately around the president, rather than securing other areas, part of their job was to cover his body to both hide him from the shooter or to take the bullet if the shooter did shoot, and they simply did not have the physical size to do that.

I don’t think anyone is ‘slagging’ you. They’re just disagreeing.

Don't forget that 1) he'll have a really big dick (but not too big) and 2) you'll never have had truly satisfying sex before.

why yes I did used to steal my mother's romance novels out of her drawer, why do you ask

Uh no, its not. its saying for this particular role those women did not have the right size, and they didn't.

But in reality women who did not have the physicality for the job were put in that particular role.

And look at the footage of Kellie Jay Keen being pushed through the crowd by her security guy. Its highly unlikely a woman could have done that.

Nope, but if people are going to clearly be slagging me for daring to say in some roles, sex matters - and to apparently do so from a feminist perspective, then I am going to point out potential hypocrisy. Sex matters in some roles (someone may prefer a person of the same sex to carry out an intimate medical examination, or take down a witness statement from a rape victim). Bodyguard is not one of them. Strength, fitness, agility, quick-thinkingness and other attributes matter, and some of these may be attributes found more in men than women, but that's not the same as saying sex matters in the role of bodyguard.

Really??

www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-is-michelle-herczeg-kamala-harris-secret-service-bodyguard-article-109611433/amp

And yet who is he leaning on? Oh look, it's a woman.

Hard to see a post saying its just as well women won't have to take a bullet for me as mere disagreement.

No you weren't saying that.You weren't saying these particular women didn't fit the role, you were saying no women would - you want a man.

It matters if you need to be surrounded and hidden from sight from a shooter, or need someone's bulk to push through a mob. I am sure there are other aspects of security detail women and men can do equally. But those two are not them.