On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 20:25:52 GMT, angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk (Angilion) wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:08:17 -0500, "Shadow Dancer"
><insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote:
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>>(1) A woman's pain threshhold is far higher, due to the ability to bear
>>children; roughly 5 minutes of labor pain would literally kill a man.
>>If it wasn't so sad, it would be amusing to see these two extreme
>sexists babbling crap to "prove" their sexism is reasonable.
>>I know for a fact that you cannot provide any evidence to support
>your statement, above, or any part of it. You are just burbling
>the prevailing sexism.
>>If anyone wishes to look for themselves, just do a search
>for "pain threshold +men +women" at, for example, www.google.com
>>You will find numerous studies, some of which conclude that
>women have a higher pain threshold than men and some of
>which conclude the reverse. None of them come anywhere
>near supporting the ridiculous statement made by Shadow Dancer.
It's a little rude to reply to oneself, but I would like to point out that
I am wrong. Having checked many of the links, it is clear that
the evidence indicates that, on average, men have a higher
pain threshold than women. The one study I saw with the opposite
result appreared to have been extrapolated from research on
pregnant rats, which says volumes about its relevance.
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