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The strength gap can be wild.

A while back at work two of my female colleagues were trying to move a full book cart to another wing of the building. There was a bit higher treshold in one of the corridors and they couldn’t raise the cart enough to get the wheels over it. I happened to walk by and offered assistance.

I knelt down to check the wheel height and instantly raised the front of the cart with one hand and guided it over threshold my other hand. While still on my knees.

My colleagues stared at me with a mix of awe and horror, having just realized that what was beyond their combined strength was just an easy task for me. And I’m not even a “strong guy”.

A few of my muslim students said that they couldn’t draw a rainbow in art class, “because in our religion this is a bad thing”.

I asked them “but are not all of nature’s wonders the work of Allah?” While I watched the gears rolling behind their eyes I told them to ask their imams “who makes the rainbows in the sky?”. And that they may return their given assignments after having received the answer.