@Jennifer1984 Said 
She's right.
Of course, neither gender can experience the other's pain in this particular regard, so I guess it's reasonable for people to try to find a means of measuring pain and therefore being able to make comparison.
As your nurse friend quite rightly says though, even if pain could be effectively measured, everybody's pain threshold is different so any comparison between two particular people would be relevant to them and them only.
I agree with you, that this is a peeve. Men who produce this kind of nonsense are simply trying to play down what women go through because they realise just how serious it is. They have this strange sort of mentality that turns things into 'competitions'. As if it's important for men to win on the "This-hurts-scale". Perhaps they think that if they can find something they may experience uniquely as men, that they can pass off as being more painful than something we experience uniquely as women, they they have somehow gained some sort of victory.
Having once witnessed a girl-friend of mine put her knee in a man's groin when he didn't take "Thanks, You're really nice but I'm not interested", which, due to his drunken persistence, eventually developed to "Look, sod off and keep your bloody hands to yourself" for an answer, I must admit it looks jolly painful.
But in a brief moment or two, he got up, and I'm sure that he got his breath back, his eyes stopped watering and he was able to walk again. Within a minute or so, I'm sure his voice would have dropped the several octaves it had risen, back down the register to normal.
You wanna know pain, fellas...? Try labour for umpteen hours, culminating in something that feels like crapping a basketball. That will REALLY make your eyes water.
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Didn't really think about the competition part (which with testosterone is very likely). I've always thought it's one or a combo of the following:
1. They don't like all the attention she gets for something that "happens everyday", afterall, no one coddles or tries to soothe him when his junk gets hit.
2. They know that it's a scary/amazing/excruciating thing women go through, but as men, they can't bare the thought of women maaaaaybe being "stronger" than them or "more important"
Men can be complete babies sometimes. And they screw it up for the men who are compassionate. They hold their wives hand and are actually humbled, grateful and amazed by what their partner was able to do. That, to me, is the actions of a real man.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying getting kicked in the balls doesn't hurt. If it can bring a guy to tears it probably does. But I really think it's comparing apples to oranges with childbirth. You cannot compare the two.
Apr 29, 2012 @ 11:59:22
