The gist of my question is that for the following statements, the ～ても feels
out of place. More specifically, it almost feels absurd to make the
exasperated "even if/although" statement in the first place, as the following
statement is entirely expected.

I had this in the back of my head for a while. Sometimes I didn't comprehend
the sentence correctly at first, so the ても initially felt out of place, but
that was my problem. However, there were still some sentences that I'm fairly
sure I didn't misunderstand that still had this logical disconnect. These
three, for example, that I saved over time:

> こいつ殴るとき全然腰入れてないし、男の腕力と比べてもやっぱりそこは普通の女子っぽい

She doesn't use her lower half when striking me, even if (?) compared to a
guy's strength, her arm strength is definitely girl-esque. (Well, no duh, guys
are stronger than girls.)

> 一度にそんなにたくさん言われても対応出来るかァァ
>
> 前から思ってたんだ！！ お前らちゃんと一列に並べェェ！！

  * speaker taking orders at the register but all the customers are shouting at once

Even if (?) all of you are ordering this much at once, I can't take your
orders! (This is probably the worst offender, as being unable to take all the
orders is just a no-brainer if they're all shouting at once.)

> 建学の精神は結構ですけれど、いきなり共学の是非を生徒に問われても、困惑するしかないでしょう？

  * introducing co-ed to an all-girls school

The founding principles of the school are pretty damn ingrained, but even if
we suddenly ask the students about the pros/cons of coeducation, it would only
cause bewilderment. (Well, yeah, if you suddenly thrust that upon the
students, it would obviously cause issues...)

* * *

More clearly, for 一度にそんなにたくさん言われても対応出来るかァァ！

  1. Even if all of you are ordering this much at once, I can't take your orders!

  2. If all of you are ordering this much at once, I can't take your orders!

The first translation makes no sense, but it feels like that's what the
original sentence was saying. Comparatively, the 2nd "translation" makes more
sense, but it's not what is actually being said so to speak...

* * *

**Edit 1:**

Dug up this one as well, regarding date plans:

> 変に気張ってもお互い緊張するだけなので、今日はこんな感じでまったり彼女と過ごすことにする。

(Even?) if I go full tryhard on today's activities, it would only make both of
us uncomfortable, so today I'm gonna take it easy with her.

Perhaps a less extreme example, but I still feel it gets the feeling across.

**Edit 2:**

Reading this again after finding yet another [related
sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/72001/interpreting-%e4%b8%8b%e6%89%8b%e3%81%ab%e4%bf%ba%e3%82%92%e6%ae%8b%e3%81%97%e3%81%a6%e6%89%8b%e6%9f%84%e3%82%92%e5%a5%aa%e3%82%8f%e3%82%8c%e3%81%a6%e3%82%82%e5%9b%b0%e3%82%8b%e3%81%a8%e5%88%a4%e6%96%ad%e3%81%97%e3%81%9f-in-
this-context/72008?noredirect=1#comment119838_72008) where other initial
ambiguities made choosing between ても as ても or たら a nontrivial issue; and vice
versa.

The given answer here doesn't apply after looking at it again, since with
「いかに努めても…できない」 etc., there is some expectation that ～ in ～ても will produce some
desirable outcome before it is negated to emphasize how "全く…できない" it is.

As with all of the given examples and あんまりゆっくりしてても、お母さん帰ってきちゃうかもだし…, there
isn't really any expectation that ～ in ～ても would produce an outcome that would
be worthy of a negation. As in this case, doing it really slowly can only
result in the mom coming back before they were finished, so negating it
doesn't have any of the 全く…できない effect. Overall, the 「ても」→「たら」interpretation
is more natural and intuitive, but I have yet to see it confirmed anywhere.

Is there a more academic confirmation out there?
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usage conjunctions
Use of ～ても but what follows ～ is obvious rather than contrary to expectations
According to 明鏡国語辞典:

> 《「…ても…ない」の形で、同じまたは類似した意味の動詞を並べて》事の成立を強く否定する。いかに努めても…できない。全く…ない。

Translation:

> (When verbs carrying similar/identical meanings form a compound sentence
> with the construction 「…ても…ない」) Strongly deny that something is possible.
> Similar to 「いかに努めても…できない」 and 「全く…できない」

While the grammar doesn't exactly match, the usage is comparable and I believe
the 1st, 3rd, and 4th sentences imply similar verbs, you just have to play
with the wording a bit. For example, without losing any meaning, the 1st
sentence could be changed to

> …男の腕力に比べてもやっぱり比べ物にならない。

The 2nd sentence is not related because if you take the か off, it's a usage
that I assume you know already. The か is just expressing outrage at the
customers' expectations.

The 3rd sentence could be

> …いきなり共学の是非の答えを求められても答えられないでしょう？

And as for the 4th (this is also kind of a play on words for my dictionary's
definition of 気張る=息をつめて力を入れる)

> 変に気張っても、息をつめた様な空気しかない…
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