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Only when they swear, though. Myth Busters can attest to that.
edited 24th Jan '11 12:23:39 PM by SandJosieph
@ Pykrete and AHR: Yeah, I think I recall reading something about how men have a higher standard pain tolerance (on average, of course), but women's bodies produce enough endorphins in the late stages of pregnancy to make childbirth more bearable. Of course, if I remember right, the article was on Cracked, and so best taken with a grain of salt *
I also heard that women can tolerate blood more, due to being mentally accustomed to it, with their period. Once again, through the grape vine.
Read my stories!There's no objective disadvantage to being fat apart from cultural expectations, needing less alcohol to get drunk could just as well be considered an advantage, given that getting drunk is the reason consume alcohol in the first place, and childbirth is something that people in the Western world generally do by choice.
both men and women experience prejudice in socially. in that case, i'd say it's about equal, though the issue of rape kind of makes me want to say women have it worse. girls simply don't go walking anywhere by themselves after dark. guys don't even think about it though. not to mention the victim-blaming and stuff. then again, there is a LOT more pressure for men to conform to gender stereotypes than women are. it's ridiculous how women will complain about how men don't like them them for being short/tall, fat, shy, etc etc, but wouldn't even bat an eye at a man that had a few those qualities or even treat him with contempt. the way women reject men in such harsh, holier-than-thou attitudes kind of disgust me sometimes.
in the working world though... men definitely have it better.
of course, there is absolutely no way of knowing for sure. you obviously can't judge this kind of thing statistically (well, i guess you could try but it would probably just be crap) so any reliable studies of it would be humanistic — which is subjective of course. so yeah, what everyone else already said. ._.
edited 24th Jan '11 9:36:48 PM by SelphieFairy
edited 24th Jan '11 9:47:42 PM by Herbarius
@Selphie: About the rape thing, some men do worry about it a lot. I hang out at gay bars and stuff a lot so I always have to be careful. There are dudes out there who target young gay guys such as myself...
And in general, straight men can obviously get raped, but they probably don't think about it as much.
"Without a fairy, you're not even a real man!" ~ Mido from Ocarina of Time^oh yeah, i'm sure guys worry about it too. i've had guy friends tell me. as in straight ones. but err only when they're partying/passed out and kind of based on homophobia. -.- it's just simply not as prevalent in everyday life as it is for women. actually, i don't think women think about it much either — but it has to do with the fact that it's just become such a common part of our lives so we don't think that there is anything abnormal about it.
no such thing. at least not according to modern anthropology. a true matriarch has never existed. there have been matrilinear societies where people trace their lineages through the mother's line, but no matriarchs. just a note.
edited 24th Jan '11 10:12:44 PM by SelphieFairy
If you get your nose cut off because you shamed your family
, it's among your worst problems.
The one that faces entrenched systematic sexism, both on a personal and social scale.
Of the sort which would be considered beyond the pale for any other minority, even by the strongest backwards 'pc gone mad' mail reading type.
"When you cut your finger, I do not bleed." Response of a man who lived on the outskirts of a concentration camp.Whenever they measure pain by self-report (eg say 'stop' when it hurts, like this study
) men show a higher threshold than women. But when they measure actual physiological reactions
, women show a higher threshold of pain than men. Women also vary in pain threshold depending on menstrual cycle
.
"Ahem, if we are speaking about men a women in general, then yes, it should count. After all, the majority of population of the planet does not come from the western world." - Beholderess
Then you may as well do away with the idea of referring to the western world's poor as poor, because most people outside the western world are far poorer than them.
edited 25th Jan '11 6:43:40 AM by neoYTPism
Not unless you want to argue that poverty is at the foot of a sliding scale, rather than being a broad category encompassing a range of people, some of whom are better off than others.
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I remember that topic. I thought it said women generally had lower pain tolerance, but get pumped up on an absurd amount of hormones specifically during childbirth?