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The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
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Re: The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
So uhm, I’m a male reporting in with my anecdata. I am just like your girlfriend. Can’t tolerate extreme temperatures (especially cold), but have a fairly high tolerance for physical pain compared to what’s normal I think. And I am INFAMOUS for needing sunglasses. Whenever I’m visiting my folks, they know it’s the thing I’ll complain about if I’ll be in the sun and my mom will usually have bought sunglasses just for…
Eye colour has a lot to do with how much light your retinas let in, iirc. Would this explain your sensitivity?
I'm not sure of a relationship there, but I recall reading reports for a long time that red-heads felt less pain than other people - as a red-head this amuses me, but I have no personal data to share.
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#33My girlfriend seems to handle "direct" pain, like hitting stuff, getting cut or back pain, compared to me. Most times she just keeps going without uttering much at all. But she's significantly worse at dealing with cold, heat and high brightness. One thing is that her body may be worse at regulating temperature, but she can't stand going out in the cold even for a few minutes unless she's dressed like she's visiting…
>I also have no issue handling very bright sunny days without sunglasses,
watch out for cataract
Re: The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
#34My girlfriend seems to handle "direct" pain, like hitting stuff, getting cut or back pain, compared to me. Most times she just keeps going without uttering much at all. But she's significantly worse at dealing with cold, heat and high brightness. One thing is that her body may be worse at regulating temperature, but she can't stand going out in the cold even for a few minutes unless she's dressed like she's visiting…
Just a note, but it is possible for anyone to become hardened to cold weather with gradual exposure over time. I used to feel cold like death but now I easily walk around in casual clothes in 30 degree weather.
Do you work for the Minneapolis tourism association?
You are correct, and it's kind of insane to me how much of a "baseline" there is to what "tolerable temperatures" feel like. You start to notice this a lot living in a place with radical temperature swings. If gets up to 35F in February, I can wear a T-shirt. When it first drops to 45F in October, it feels like the arctic.
Re: The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
#35My girlfriend seems to handle "direct" pain, like hitting stuff, getting cut or back pain, compared to me. Most times she just keeps going without uttering much at all. But she's significantly worse at dealing with cold, heat and high brightness. One thing is that her body may be worse at regulating temperature, but she can't stand going out in the cold even for a few minutes unless she's dressed like she's visiting…
I think that the way we handle localised pain vs general pain (and in particular heat and cold) has a lot more to do with how we grew up.
If you spent a lot of time in the outdoors/elements as a kid, you're going to be a lot better at handling adverse environmental conditions.
I spent my childhood wearing shorts and sandals to school, even when it was literally freezing outside (never really got much below freezing though). I also think that 15 C is comfortable inside temperature because half the houses in New Zealand don't have good insulation and heating, if any. I also never need sunglasses; I never wore them as a kid because I wore prescription glasses instead.
I handle direct pain fairly well too, because I grew up with two older brothers, one of whom enjoyed hitting me to the point that in retrospect I'd classify it as sibling abuse. I also spent a lot of my adolescence and university years doing physical work in kitchens and on building sites. Injuries such as burns, bruises, and cuts don't really bother me. Loud noises don't bother me either, from a combination of power tools, using firearms without adequate protection, and spending too long in front of large speakers in nightclubs and at festivals.
People who haven't grown up handling particular discomforts and conditions will be less willing and/or capable of handling them as an adult.
Re: The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
#36My girlfriend seems to handle "direct" pain, like hitting stuff, getting cut or back pain, compared to me. Most times she just keeps going without uttering much at all. But she's significantly worse at dealing with cold, heat and high brightness. One thing is that her body may be worse at regulating temperature, but she can't stand going out in the cold even for a few minutes unless she's dressed like she's visiting…
Regarding the cold, that has to do with the nature that females tend to have less muscle mass than males. Bodymass produces heat.
Re: The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a note, but it is possible for anyone to become hardened to cold weather with gradual exposure over time. I used to feel cold like death but now I easily walk around in casual clothes in 30 degree weather.
I often get judged for wearing shorts and a hoodie in winter weather, but I don't see why it's such a big deal. I really dislike bundling up every single time I step outside. If I'm going to the grocery store, I'm fine going in my pajamas because I'm going to be outside for around 30 seconds.
Keeping your core warm is the essential component to keeping your body warm for long periods of time.
I'll happily go outside down to -5 C/20 F weather outside wearing shorts and a warm jacket, as long as it isn't too windy.
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#38The first thing I thought to myself when I read this headline is that certain people are probably going to get offended by someone pointing out physiological differences between sexes.
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#39I feel like this article has buried the lede to the point that the actual news story has been completely missed.
The more newsworthy headline here is that biological and physiological studies will have varying results across test subjects with differing genetics, and that testing against genetically identical test subjects will give overly specific results. This seems to be a fundamental problem in the methodology of a lot of biological studies.
We've done a very good job at creating an invulnerable lab mouse.
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#40I understand the need to test pain response for medical purposes, but I can't shake the feeling that in a few hundred years we're going to look back on the use of animals in pain studies and think it's barbarism.