swphreak Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Ok, during my 4th period Science class we had a very strange debate. "Who can handle pain better, Guys or Girls?" And believe it or not, it all started cuz some girl got a paper cut. . . The debate/discussion went on for like 45 mins. And at the last 10 mins before the bell rang, this one girls says: "Who pushes a watermelon size baby through their [edited]." After she said that, there was this awkward silence til the bell rang. So, I'm wandering, what are your opinions on this? I used to think that guys could handle pain better because of adrenaline, but now that she said that. . . I'm not sure. Cuz giving birth... thats gotta hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I don't know.... I'd say it's more based on the individual. I don't really like the whole, "who pushes what out where" debate. I'm sure birth hurts like hell and then some but it's not like their, "appendages" weren't designed to do that very thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 physical: I guess men. mental: women. And like rhett, said, we guys may never know what it feels like, but their body was designed to do it...but i have heard of men enduring much more physical pain than what is said to be caused by childbirth. personally, no challenges yet. :| Now mental pain, i feel women have a better ability to bear. There are both cases where both men and women succumb to the pressure, but...y'know what i'm saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I certainly don't think girls have a higher mental pain threshhold, not in my experience at least. I mean, i know girls that fall apart when they break up with some guy they've been going out with for two weeks, or if they didn't do well on something or what not. The guys are all like "oh well" and laugh about it. As for physical, i never even considerd this a question. Guys are lot rougher on each other than girls. If a guy gets punched or hit or whatever then it doesn't normally matter. All the girls i know can't take a hit at all. As for chidbirth, if women have such a high pain tolerance, then why do they always scream and whatnot for painkillers. Childbirht hurts alot, i'm sure, but most of the time nowadays women have to take painkillers just ot make it. Or at least they want to. Not that i can blame them, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I mean, i know girls that fall apart when they break up with some guy they've been going out with for two weeks, or if they didn't do well on something or what not. The guys are all like "oh well" and laugh about it. That's because, in those cases the guy didn't care at all. If it happened the other way around the guy would be devastated too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 As Rhett said, it varies from person to person and it varies greatly with the type of pain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Originally posted by krkode That's because, in those cases the guy didn't care at all. If it happened the other way around the guy would be devastated too... That was just one example. It happens in a lot of different situations. And Homer, it varies with person to person, but doesn't everything? I mean, i'd think we were talking about men and women in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mex Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 I can't handle pain very easiley.. Mental = I can cope. Physhical = I can't cope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEDI_MASTA Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 lol as for mental pain... girls just sit there and cry about it... which happens to be a better method of dealing with mental pain as opposed to bottling it up inside *guys* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reborn Outcast Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 It all depends on who were talking about. I know some women who can take pain better than most men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 shall i tell you something... woman can cope with the most pain.. mentally and Physhicaly. have any of you men ever delivere a baby? have you ever asked your mom how much pain it was.... well i did .. and i also asked some other woman.... it is horrifying. i say woman can cope with the most pain ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted February 2, 2003 Author Share Posted February 2, 2003 Well, I'm sure no matter what you're gona cry or cuss the crap out of someone when you feel a lot of pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breton Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Originally posted by Wraith 8 shall i tell you something... woman can cope with the most pain.. mentally and Physhicaly. have any of you men ever delivere a baby? No, and that is exactly why you can't use that for reasoning, simply because the only ones who knows how painful it is are those who have given birth, meaning you can't know how men would handle the pain because no man has ever given birth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-s/<itzo- Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 child birth that musta hurt. but men do get hurt most of the times. i'd say men can handle phsyical pain much more than women.because maybe we are much more active than women and i guess we get use to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylilin Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 I wish women could feel what uts like to get kicked in the nuts, thats pain. In fact you don't even have to get hit in the nuts for them to hurt, you can barely graze nuts and they hurt sometimes. Thats is the king of all pain. The body of a woman may be designed to have a child, and I'm sure that hurts like hell and its something I'm glad I don't have the physical ability to experience. But it pails in comparison to the intensity of the pain of getting hit in the nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted February 3, 2003 Author Share Posted February 3, 2003 Ya. forgot about the nuts. . . that hurts. . . especially when it's a baseball flying at you (dont ask. My friends and i were being jack***es) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 Originally posted by JM Qui-Gon Jinn No, and that is exactly why you can't use that for reasoning, simply because the only ones who knows how painful it is are those who have given birth, meaning you can't know how men would handle the pain because no man has ever given birth. but if we go down that way... we shouldnt have this discussion.... to discuss things like that.. you actually have to BE a man or woman to experiance it. so when you lot say that a guy can... its just because you felt something that hurt and you think you did it pretty good... but you didn't experiance it like a woman.... so its all speculation.... my speculation is just as valid as the next guys/girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 I don't think that PHYSICALLY a guy's body is weaker than the girls' bodies (or vice versa), and of course we're both humans so we feel as much pain. Matter is, boys and girls are raised differently. Boys are "not allowed to" cry, but girls are "allowed to" cry. So when a girl cries when she gets hurt, she appears to be "weaker" than the boy. About the baby thing. Well, many mothers DON'T tolerate it. Many go "Oh my god, can't you cut the baby out of my belly instead" (forgot the name of that operation ) when they start feeling the pain. They just don't really have a choice. Also, all these guys were tortured back in the middle ages, which should hurt as much as giving birth (water torture, for example). However, I think that if Joan D'arc was tortured she should endure it as much as any male commander, theoretically. It's up to the individuals. Okay, these are official statistics, so don't flame me: GIRLS can handle mental pain better than boys (because of being social/open), while MEN can handle mental pain better than WOMENEN (maybe because by the time Women grow up, they live alone and/or don't "allow themselves' to cry/be open the same way as they did as they were little girls. I think that it's up to the individual, though. There are boys who cry easily, there are girls who don't cry. There are girls who can hold their finger over a burning candle longer than the avg. boy, and vice versa. Physically, we feel equal pain and I don't think the girl BODY reacts to pain more harshly than a boy's body. It's up to the individual, and while there are mental differences, many are caused by the way the kid is raised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfnshannon Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 wow...for a bleak moment I thought I was the only one going to vote for the girls. I haven't experienced the whole child birth thing yet. I'm scared actually. All these horror stories from all the woman around me. Strangers that think it is in my best interest to hear how they damn near died during childbirth. Enough to scare the bejessus outta me! When I start complaining about how men don't have to go through the same amount of pain women do and how unfair it is and waaaaa. My fiance tells me its cuz "we ate the apple first"...lame excuse. \and btw...being kicked in the balls probably hurts just as much as when someone hits a girls boob. It hurts like hell too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Technically, you can adopt a child from Romania or China instead of giving birth.. You don't HAVE TO give birth ...okay, you do, but you didn't have to get pregnant as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowTemplar Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Originally posted by Boba Rhett I don't really like the whole, "who pushes what out where" debate. I'm sure birth hurts like hell and then some but it's not like their, "appendages" weren't designed to do that very thing. Its supposed to hurt. It makes the woman aware of what is going on in time for preparations to be made (or so I read). Besides, it's a moot point, because once the pain starts it's kinda too late to back out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfnshannon Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 ROFL well...i thought this was about woman in general. And woman in general do go through child birth. And I didn't think we were discussing solely natural child birth. I'm not going to go into our stuff was made to do that. Just because it was meant to do that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt like hell. But some woman think Childbirth isn't even painfuL! I pray I'm one of them! Some woman give birth to 10lb babies too without meds..owey. Anyways this isn't a debate about how much child birth hurts or what a woman chooses. Its about pain tolerance. To get away from the child birth stuff - I think woman put up with more mental abuse then any man and that is still pain. They hold a lot in and can take more abuse in that respect then men. Men will just punch you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.