why do people use birth or menstrual cramps to say that women can handle pain better?

Question

why do people use birth or menstrual cramps to say that women can handle pain better?

Answer 1

A friend of mine was scouting an area in Afghanistan a few years ago and happened across an explosive device his partner was killed and his arm was litteraly blown off he laid there for an hour before rescue and silently so not to draw attention of anyone who would come within earshot of screams. It is amazing the amount of pain a human being (man or woman) can take when they have NO CHOICE. I'm not saying women are weaker or stronger just saying humans are tough.

Answer 2

It's a silly comment to, firstly, offer a taste of the guilt trip - see how we poor women suffer for YOU! Secondly, to disparage men in general.



It's also been a large part of the reason that women have enjoyed the protection of The Patriarchy and the granting of massive privilege under it for so long. We men have always respected and valued women and their work in bringing forth the next generation - women, on the other hand, have used it as a tool for gain.



Dressing stations and wards full of wounded men? Mostly they suffer in silence, once the first shock and agony pass - same as your example of a broken leg.

Answer 3

LMFAO. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you a Y!A question that could only be asked by a man. Considering most men behave like they are going to die with a common cold, well, I mean really, do I need to say more? GEEZUS!

Answer 4

See, one of the main problems with using childbirth as a measure (such as the demonstration alluded to by another answer about mechanically indusing in a man similar pain to his wife's contractions) is that during the process of childbirth, a woman's body produces huge amounts of hormones that are specifically produced to detract from, mask, or otherwise distract from any pain.



That is why women are capable of handling the pain of childbirth so well: they are meant to, and thus their body compensates with natural pain-killing hormones.

Answer 5

Actually, men do handle pain better because, in general, they simply feel LESS pain. There are several factors that contribute to this: Women have more densely packed nerve endings, and men have more adrenaline when they experience pain. These factors, along with a few others, help men feel less pain than women in general. The ONE exception (and this pertains to your edit) is child birth. Women go through several biological processes during labor, such as a surge of estrogen, which helps alleviate the feelings of pain, that allow them to feel less pain, and surpassing the pain tolerance of men.

Answer 6

I don't know. I personally didn't have much tolerance for menstrual pain, i hated it. Likewise when I had my first son I found it extremely painful, and was very glad when they gave me an epidural. And i was jolly glad to have the two younger ones by caesarian. There is no evidence that I am aware of that women actually can endure pain better than men can.

Answer 7

I think they did some tests a few years ago where they can hook a man up to a machine, putting some device onto his abdomen which gives the same pulses that the woman had, so when his wife was in labour he was feeling the same pain of contractions and such in his abdomen. He lasted half an hour I think, which is pretty good since he had a choice.



I don't have the source because I can't remember at all what or where it was from but google can be your friend. ^_^



Edit: Perhaps RAPTASTIC is right... Why'd we get stuck with childbirth then :O Unfair! :P

Answer 8

They do all of these sort of things to make themselves "feel good" about being physically inferior and getting the short end of the stick from nature. Feminism has made women selfish, delusional, and look like idiots in encouraging them to be Female Supremacists and calling themselves superior against all of the facts.



@"RAPETASTIC": Thanks for the steaming pile of junk science and PC propaganda! Actually, there has been significant research done that shows that neither cultural and social factors vis-á -vis gender, nor monetary reward affects the pain tolerance data, even though some culture's peoples, i.e. race, have lower or higher pain tolerances.

Answer 9

Women feel pain more than men, so perhaps we just learn to deal with it better...

I haven't given birth, but I can tell you menstrual cramps HURT. Cramps vary in pain, some cycles worse than others. Imagine holding a fart in for a really long time and not being able to let it out...sorry it's a crude example but it's the only thing I can really think to compare it to :P

Answer 10

RAPTASTIC - You are obviously someone with a head on his shoulders. Please visit videos on youtube by my good friend Bernard Chapin. I think you will run into a lot of similar information that will educate enlighten and provoke your male mind. Search term "Chapin's Inferno"



In answer to the actual question asked about women and men and pain.......



Most of the Women's Studies rhetoric about women's superiority in, well, anything, comes not from any documented proof or controlled scientific study. It comes from shouting the loudest and repeating the same thing over and over again until you believe the sky is red, not blue.



The fact that the sky remains blue even though you pronounce it to be red is irrelevent to feminist extremists.



Short answer in a nutshell.