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Angilion <angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:3d34ab12.6392246 at news.freeserve.net...
> 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>...
>> [..]
>> >> > 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?
Perhaps the intended meaning was the threshold for the drug.
> 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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>> Always remember you're unique.
> Just like everyone else. (Anon)
