liebling
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I am a female and I regularly carry 50 pound sacks of feed. I do not lift weights or anything and I can carry those sacks. I would guess that an average man has at least four times the upper body strength that I do.
I think there's some subjectivity at play here. Compare: my husband's 6', extremely fit. I'm 130lbs. He can pick me up, sure, but he can't carry me very far. If I were either fighting or limp, he'd drop me. Just another data point...but many men couldn't carry a 120lb person very far, particularly if the person is uncooperative. (See also subjective discussions of height that took place on some of these threads...I think of my husband as "average" height, because the men in my family are all 6'2" or more).
JM's capacity to carry a 120lb person is less subjective, IMO. He could restrain and haul just about any average-sized woman out there.