If they were to go through it, wouldn't they just step up to the pain because it had to be done the same as women do?
2007-08-12 16:32:11 · 15 answers · asked by it's a CHOICE 2 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I'm going to copy and paste my answer from a similar past thread.
Men may not be able to give birth, but plenty of men have endured other, probably even more traumatic experiences. Who do you think the vast majority of soldiers and warriors throughout human history have been? Men. But of course, getting an arm hacked off, your face whacked with a spiked mace, bullets to the gut, your flesh ripped up by shrapnel, or your skin burned with mustard gas is NOTHING compared to the pain and trauma of pregnancy and birth, right?
Whenever I hear this argument that giving birth requires some kind of special resilience that only woman can have I feel like slapping the people who say it for their stupidity. Go talk to the MEN who fought in the trenches of WWI or survived the Bataan Death March and tell THEM how they couldn't possibly take the strain of pregnancy.
2007-08-12 16:40:29 · answer #1 · answered by Somes J 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Lol Think about it, women have no choice but to stand the pain.
Nobody enjoys getting a tattoo but the result is worth the pain.
I think men would say that women would not be able to stand the pain of being kicked in the nuts. Sometimes it lasts an hour sometimes it lasts a day or two. Go to kick a guy in the nuts and youll see him protect them as if it was his own child.
I think a man could stand the pain of childbirth because if we could have children we would have no choice but to stand it.
Women scream and curse at there husbands for putting them in this situation during child birth and then claim to be victorious over their pain threshhold. You really have no choice.
2007-08-12 16:45:45 · answer #2 · answered by Godhi 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of our ability to endure it comes from our desire to have children. We know that at the other end we'll have that sweet little baby to hold on to and the pain as awful as it is will go away. I think if it were my husband, he'd probably do it once and then swear he'd never do it again. I've had 3 and would gladly do it again because I cherish my children. Not that my husband doesn't adore or children. He would have been just as happy with 1. I guess what I'm saying is that men don't have that same sentimentality or yearning for a child like a woman does. And there's nothing wrong with, it's just not their nature. Like the above poster said men have suffered battle wounds throughout history. For someone like my husband he's proud of his scars, and broken collar bone story, because it makes him feel more macho. As a woman I don't think I would deal quite as well with having an arm hacked off as so eliquently put above. Basically I think both men and women can endure tremendous amounts of pain, I think it's our instincts and end result/reward that determine whether a specific cause for pain is bearable in or own mind or not. Hope that made sense....
2007-08-12 16:52:52 · answer #3 · answered by luvmybabies 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If men were made to have childbirth as women do, then their bodies would have been so physically configured so that they will be able to bear the accompanying pain. Don't you wish that women laid eggs instead and have their husbands lay on them to incubate?
2007-08-12 16:45:38 · answer #4 · answered by Don S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not fair. Of course they would. I have seen men do all kinds of very painful things to spare their children from hurt, what makes you think that would change at the moment of birth. A statement like that makes it seem like men don't love their children as much as women do. It seems kinda sexist & me being a woman, I really don't like generalities when it comes to that kind of thinking. Seems like it all boils down to individuals at that moment, not really sexes.
2007-08-12 16:45:30 · answer #5 · answered by jillianszoo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, men have a higher pain tolerance & threshold than women during normal times, BUT during pregnancy, women's bodies make a special hormone that enables them to withstand extreme pain, more so than men, and that enables them to deal with childbirth. So no, a man would be more likely than a woman to die because of the pain.
It is a myth women have a higher pain tolerance & threshold.
2007-08-12 16:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Of course, you are right. And no one knows what another's pain feels like.
2007-08-12 16:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by Crocus 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It would be impossible to venture a guess on that. They sure do scream when a nurse puts a cath tube in that little hole of their's though.
2007-08-12 17:27:04 · answer #8 · answered by sashali 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not fair. It's just another generalization.
2007-08-12 16:50:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Woman's bodies evolved this way. It would take an awful long time for nature to prepare a man's body for child birth. Millions of years in fact.
2007-08-12 17:44:42 · answer #10 · answered by kj 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋