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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

OhSojourner ohsojourner at aol.com
Sun Jul 14 19:46:19 EST 2002


angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk (Angilion) wrote in message news:<3d307e64.3196909 at news.freeserve.net>...
> [,alt.religion,alt.education,alt.feminism.individualism
>  cut to avoid spam.  Crossposting to 7 unrelated groups is very
>  rude.  4 is too many, but it's relevant to 3 of them and I think
>  the 4th is where Shadow Dancer "lives"]
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:08:17 -0500, "Shadow Dancer"
> <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote:
> 
> [concerning men]
> 
> >It doesn't make them smarter and their corpus collosums are still screwed
> >up.
> >
> >I guess you missed the statistics that:
> >
> >(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.

Shadow Dancer is forgetting the men who participate in boxing matches
and other contact sports, who endure despite many blows to the body; 
soldiers who sustain wounds yet are still able to push on; aboriginal
"rites of manhood", etc.

(I sure as heck don't have a high tolerance for pain;  for example I
need at least twice the dose of novocaine at the dentists'...)

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