On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:16:54 -0500, "Shadow Dancer"
<insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote:
>"OhSojourner" <ohsojourner at aol.com> wrote in message
>news:ce660175.0207141646.35768403 at posting.google.com...>>angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk (Angilion) wrote in message
>news:<3d307e64.3196909 at news.freeserve.net>...
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>> > 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'...)
>>If you need twice the dosage, this means that you have a high threshhold,
>Sojourner.
If someone needs twice the dosage of a painkiller in order to cope
with a particular level of pain, it means that they have a high tolerance
for pain?
Feel free to explain why that makes sense to you.
>I didn't forget all that you cited and I wish I could find the study which
>proved that a mere 5 minutes of full labor pain is enough to kill a man -
>because it is.
"It's true because it is and I say someone said so" is not an argument to
anyone other than a young child, a devout theist or fervent bigot. You
are not a young child and this has nothing to do with religion.
I'd like to see how they "proved" your silly assertion. The only way to
do so would be to put a significant number of men through five minutes
of labour pain and note that they all died.
>I have been told that the amount of chronic pain I have to live with (yes, I
>have several chronic conditions) would definitely land *anyone* in the
>hospital, screaming for pain.
>>It IS easy to discover proof that women DO have to have greater endurance, a
>higher pain threshhold, and her organs ARE larger and it has everything to
>do with the live bearing of children.
Then show ANY OF THAT "PROOF" and explain why all the evidence
that can be found contradicts it.
I say that you a sexist liar.
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Just like everyone else. (Anon)
