During my life I have seen many people injured: first as a sportsman, then as a professional coach, and recently offering my attendance as a volunteer to a first aid station located in a famous skiing centre.
In spite of the fact that women are considered to have higher pain threshold then men, I noticed that they are very frequently in tears when they are in pain, often really crying, while men can be noisy but hardly ever in tears.
This is a fact, a statistic based on a very high number of events, that can't be refuted.
Personally I don't think there is anything wrong in crying when hurt, I'd just like to know why women do it more easily (regardless of age, status etc.).
Is it due to physical, psychological or educational reasons?
Let me know your opinions.
2006-10-30 20:47:13 · 11 answers · asked by Andrea 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Well, men are afraid to show tears because they think it makes them appear weak. Women do not carry that social stigma.
Women probably do have a higher pain threshold, but that's because their bodies are made to withstand chlidbirth.
Similarly the sensitivity to pain is also a mechanism developed for the sake of the potential child inside, or the possibility of whatever causing the pain to affect her ability to have children. So alarms go off in the brain when anything potentially dangerous is at hand.
2006-10-30 21:03:52 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well since you have let us know you opinions which you phrase as 'unrefuted fact' I will let you know mine...
Not crying is not a sign of anything other than conditioning by society that says whimps cry.... this is true of men and women...
Women are excused for crying in our society but men are not...
Women, some not all, can cry more easily than men simply because they are permitted to... and crying does not mean they are not tolerating the pain... from what I have seen women, some not all, tend to cry and then get back ou there into it, men, some not all, on the other hand dont cry and do reach for the pain killers and take to their beds etc.. so it would seem that crying has very little if anything to do with tolerance of pain..
2006-11-01 08:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is true that women can endure more pain than a man, But everyone male and female has different tolerant levels .. and it also has to do with focus, some can focus on something while in alot of pain, and it takes away alot of the intensity, Kinda like mind over matter.... men are taught to be strong, most young boys hear this growing up( don't cry your a big boy, just brush it off) and it sticks with them
2006-10-30 21:02:31 · answer #3 · answered by Sheena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has a lot to due with the way we are raised and the reaction to the tears. If a woman cries no one thinks anything of it, there is no stigma attached. If a man cries when he is injured he will hear about it from his friends, and be laughed at by his peers. Boys are also raised with you have to be tough creed taught to them. Parents, coach's, and their peers. Crying to a man is a sign of weakness, ergo the old sayings, "take it like a man", "crying like a baby" " acted like a little girl" etc..etc..
2006-10-30 21:08:31 · answer #4 · answered by mark g 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Women are more geared to express emotion. I see this as a strength in most cases. One can move past the pain quicker if it is fully expressed, just like any toher feelings.
2006-10-30 21:47:37 · answer #5 · answered by Cub6265 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
perhaps it goes all the way back to hunter gatherer if your hunting the last thing you want is somebody crying like a baby and scaring of the prey at the crucial point of the hunt and the rest of the tribe going hungry because of it , there for men disguise it better.
personal thought no scientific evidence to back it up
or perhaps its just macho bull shite
2006-10-30 20:56:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
could it be caused from stress
because tears help stress & women are less stressed
men suffer stress more don't they they get real angry
& that could be because they don't cry etc
but i have been watching a medical show & the men have groaned in agony a lot
but that is not crying is it ??
2006-10-30 20:58:19 · answer #7 · answered by ausblue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are supposedly to be the gentler, more emotional sex. Like all generalizations, that's not always true.
2006-10-30 20:59:15 · answer #8 · answered by nunya 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because a woman doesn't take it like a man.
2006-10-30 20:54:51 · answer #9 · answered by IceTrojan 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Maybe because woman is weak and man is tough.
2006-10-30 20:58:36 · answer #10 · answered by Nurul 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋