I am merely stating that a man who seriously wants to do do you harm can power through a females kick as they probably have 50-100 pounds on the female.
Isn't that more of a matter of demographics?
If both are otherwise untrained beyond the function of the technique (for the sake of this we'll go with a brawlers swing versus a basic side kick for the comparison), the arms are only as trained as your usage of them, while legs are cross-trained passively by simply walking around. By nature of their anatomy, they can kick while putting less at risk and otherwise tend to pack more force anatomically by comparison to men's.
If both are trained, then it's more of a T vs E count question for physicality and otherwise a matter of how much room there is to coast from the environment (improvised weapons, environmental factors, whatever you'd find outside of a sports ring). While muscle and bulk does give an advantage, especially in a cage match format, otherwise avoiding being hit at all or being otherwise slippery lends to smaller forms.
Supposedly, female muscle is also more fatigue-resistant with faster recovery in spite if having lower output when generally compared to male muscle, plus as a mass comparison argument females are more by design built around leg strength.
Until you aim for their knees, neck, temple, elbows, nose, etc. The Protector had an interesting handle on this argument:
Part 1 (the humbling):
Part 2 (compensating):
Raw strength overcomes style as far as the fight being fair, but martial arts is also about deception and the milling of your opponent, and the ring doesn't lend to a knack for situational awareness.Perhaps but IDK many females who have the situational awareness and confidence to deal with a man larger and stronger than themselves out in the streets.
You... don't?
Hands to hand is always risky and that risk amplifies when you are dealing with a male larger than you, even if you are trained.
This is why IRL combat's better done dirty. Unless you have the room to show off, it's a much more varied set of options when you (and your opponent) can go straight for weak points.
Most trainers feel this way too, if your a female they advise you to disengage and get away as quickly as possible because your chances against a male are slim. Men are just stronger and can take more damage, you have to hit them hard to take them out and they don't have to hit you hard to take you out. Very simple.
It's a matter of appraising your individual advantages and otherwise knowing yourself, and frankly that sucks that your trainers aren't more progressive than that. While I agree it's good to tell both genders to disengage and try to get out of there (knives know no gender, it's not worth it), this outdated notion of femme learned helplessness only furthers itself through it's continued propagation.
You don't have to hit "a man" that hard if they aren't otherwise training, trust me, while women I've seen can have surprising levels of pain tolerance compared to their male counterparts who are otherwise more about output. While there are definitely chemical functions in the body that lend to thematic differences in ability between the two genders, women are tougher through having less weak points and through their physiology itself, generally more flexible, and could potentially outlast typical male counterparts if it becomes a matter of duration.
It's as true as the limitations of the ring.
Put a middle weight against a heavyweight in a bar brawl or street fight and it becomes anyone's game.Same rules apply in my opinion, that's what makes MMA great.
Cage fighting is not the same thing as fighting someone outside, you have far less options when you're trapped in a box with another dude.
The only difference is you can't elbow to the back of the head, attack the goin, and you wear gloves.
You also can't run into another room, push people in front of them, throw or swing things at them, can't utilize doors or stairs, can't optimize the social situation to your advantage...
It's just two men fighting with all the complications removed so that it could be sporting. I respect it in a min/maxing sort of way, but it's developed in a direction that favors knowing you and your opponent can't leave the arena. They're pit fighters, one-on-one warriors of their own right I'd never want to fuck with, but MMA's canon as we know it was filtered through the limitations of the sport rather than built to be ready for anything.
Most don't, but you also seem to reflect the modern MMA idea of sports combat; that raw power can be better than strategy.
I think strategy and raw power > then strategy and style.
So if it were a football player who's had a few fights at the bar versus a kung fu master comprised of only lean muscle from an overactive metabolism, you'd expect the somewhat-practiced brute to outdo the thin stylemaster?
Heavyweights are competent fighters and they have strategy, the difference is they are a lot harder to knock out and they can hit a lot harder then lower weight classes.
The sport also protects their weak points.
I'm just trying to imagine how much crazier the sport would be if they allowed such things, they'd have to optimize within an entirely different mindset.
If it's Thai Chi or some shit maybe, but a kick's more powerful than a punch and pressure points can fuck someone up on par with jiu jitsu.
I saw a martial artist a while back (on old tapes) who apparently trained to be able to throw people with just two fingers. Finesse can overcome power, it just becomes less straight forward.lol
Loling in general, or are you somehow under the impression that a punch is stronger than a kick?
Lol in general, kicks are superior imo.
I dunno about superior...
Punches are nice for being quick to execute before returning to a proper guard, while kicks are better for catching openings and knees better for when they're too up-close for punches. They all have a purpose, and I personally wish my hands were better.
Kicks I will admit feel better... but some are purely for the sake of being flashy enough to embarrass your opponent. If you have time to hit with tornado kicks for example, the enemy must be tired or otherwise bad at their job. 
Like, I love it, it's hands down my favorite kick, but it's not efficient at all. It's more fun like the way parkour is fun rather than anything practical.
