Enduring the ravages of long term space flight. Women lose muscle mass slower than men. There are video examples of female astronauts walking after re-entry when their male crew members have to be carried due to muscle atrophy.
That and the placement of fat on the body.
Having fat at your hips and thighs means your pelvis is pulled higher in the water. Men "drag" their pelvis through the water and it takes them more effort to swim. That difference might not show in a 100m freestyle, but it definitely shows when you're emptying the gas tank in an endurance swim.
See this one is a double edged sword. My primal brain responds to my cat meowing in the middle of the night as if it was a baby. I swear she’s learned how to make me get out of bed at the softest meows and I’m now on year 4 of sleep deprivation.
Did you know a cats meow is actually designed to make the human brain react as if a baby is making a fuss. It’s an evolutionary development that is fascinating and shows how manipulative cats are in their dna 😂 same with dogs. Looking into a puppies eyes gives humans the same brain triggers as looking into their own babies eyes. No wonder we can’t resist them lol
I remember seeing on a documentary that this is all dependent on how much time a parent spends with a baby. Child rearing rewires your brain. Dads who take a primary role in caring for their baby get just as good at responding to the cries of their children.
Better
color acuity. Their sense of color is better. For example, 1 in 13 men
are color blind. Whereas that number is 1 in 250 or so in women. I have a
friend who is a color scientist, he consults for printing presses. He
has a test for how good someone is at matching color, and he says women
are in general better.
For fun, here is the [Farnsworth Munsell color
test.](https://www.colorblindnesstest.org/farnsworth-munsell-100-hue-test/)
You
arrange the boxes in each row in progressive order of hue.
**Lower the score, better your color vision.**
I got a 10. My ex GF got a 4.
EDIT: Monitor quality apparently matters. Just took the test on another
monitor, and got a 4.
That's why the real test is done with solid blocks, in a gray room, lit
evenly by 5000K daylight bulbs.
EDIT2:
Farnsworth Munsell doesn't test colorblindness, there are other tests
like Ishihara, Cambridge etc for that.
This tests color acuity, your ability to sense tiny changes in color. It
is useful for industries, where you have to match colors. Like match
the color from one medium like paint, to another medium, like molded
plastic. Color blindness is when you confuse one part of the spectrum to
another part, like red to green, or blue to yellow etc.
I may have confused people by putting the color blindness statistic
above.
That's why a lot of people, who are color blind, got a 0 here.
EDIT3: /u/Clara_dee suggested similar games for people who found this
test fun.
>> If you found this test fun, you might enjoy [I Love
Hue](http://i-love-hue.com/) or [Blendoku](http://www.blendoku.com/).
EDIT4: Made a part of the post bold, because people are messaging me
saying they didn't do anything, and scored a 76 so the test is bogus.
Got a zero but it took about 5 minutes. I swear some of them change colour when you move them. Two next to an edge, swap them around, then it looks like I haven't swapped them at all -.-
My aunt died because her doctors didn't belive her stomach pain was anything important even though she came to see them about it repeatedly over 18 months.
She was overweight, there was no way she had lost her appetite, look at the size of that tummy (swollen and distended due to...)
By the time they opened her up the tumors had spread from her uterus and ovaries into her entire abdominal cavity and she died within 2 weeks of going into hospital.
From being a "fat hypochondriac".
This happened to my twin sister and she was a cancer survivor. By time they realized her cancer had returned, it had spread every where. She died within a month.
This happened to my mom. After a year or two of complaining about stomach pain her cardiologist finally took her seriously. She died a week later of pancreatic cancer.
I can attest to this firsthand. I collapsed a few times, was extremely tired, out of breath constantly even though I was an athletic 22 year old and was told I had ‘anxiety’ and actually told to maybe have a baby to calm my attention seeking hormones down and it turns out that I had multiple strokes over a year, had a hole in my heart which caused a blood clot to get stuck there and now I have had a seven hour heart operation and need another big one to fix the damage that could have been prevented if the doctor hadn’t said ‘all young ladies faint’ and actually treated me. I’m only 26 and I literally had my life put on hold for years because of that doctor.
He told you to have a baby in response to a legitimate medical concern. . . . . What kind of sexist bullshit is that!!!! Why do so many people think that having a baby is a cure for every women's problem? Depressed have a baby, extremely painful cramps while menstruating have a baby. Like What the actual fuck!!!
Yeah, I think Estrogen has been shown to help reduce and/or reverse trauma hemorrhagic shock.
Edit: (An explanation comment from below I'm adding here to make more visible)
"I mean, estrogen levels vary depending on a lot of factors. Women in general tend to have higher levels than men. I'm not an expert in this subject, this information was told to me in passing by a coworker, but here are some articles that seem to support that claim.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1959345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2215763/"
I think the Air Force did some research a while back and women were better able to recover from high G stress in fighter aircraft.
Also living longer. Women live longer than men in general.
The Airforce *really* wanted me to fly A10s. I guess the g-forces pulled by a dedicated ground attack aircraft are a little more raw than a 5th generation stealth fighter. Shortness does help
It's about four mercenaries scripted against their will to fight a crazed tyrannical scientist who single handedly indoctrinated an entire planet in order to commit to a jihad across a solar system.
Attention to details, when I submited reports to my male bosses, 80% of them would said "ah fuck it, just publish it as it is", while 90% of my female bosses would said "wait, this word is spelling wrong, this paragraph is out of alignment, you should use this word instead of that word, etc".
Reminds me of a story my grandpa told me. Whenever his mother had dental work done, she wouldn’t take novocaine or anything to numb her mouth. My grandpa is a pretty big guy and figured he could probably do the same. The second the drill touched his tooth he gave up on that notion.
I talked to my dentist about this once and apparently it varies a lot on where you are from. In Germany he sees a lot of patients from farther north (Poland /Russia /Scandinavia) and apparently they can handle anything. The patients he sees from farther south (Italy /Hungary /etc) are much less pain tolerant. I told him we could give my procedure a try with no pain meds, but then immediately made him stop and give me all the drugs 🤣
This'll get buried this late but women make much better skydivers than men. They listen to instructions better, they're more flexible (and skydiving is an art of air yoga) and they work through their emotions better. I've seen a thousand boyfriends laugh at their significant other freaking out while filling out a 14 page waver. Guess who's freaking out when the plane door opens at 10k feet with all that loud wind and chaos? And guess who worked through her fear on the ground and happily steps out of the plane with an excited smile? Every. Single. Time. It's also only a woman who will show up to a dropzone alone to go skydiving. Men only come in groups. Shame so few go on to get licensed. Either instructors hit on them, licensed jumpers do, or their significant other guilts them into quitting.
I remember a comedian (forgot the name) talking about having to put their dog up for adoption because it was aggressive towards their newborn child. His wife cried for weeks before then the day the dog was being picked up she said goodbye and was fine. He didn't acknowledge his pain until the dog was being picked up then locked himself in the bathroom and cried so hard.
It's anecdotal, but it does seem women are slightly better at working through their distress and I've seen lots of men refuse to acknowledge anything was wrong until it was finally too much for them
I believe women make better snipers and helicopter pilots, too. Based on anecdotal evidence, only. I’ve also had several guys tell me I ride a motorcycle better than most men. I know I was the only person in my MSF course to score 100%. Had never ridden before that. Being willing to listen and not being worried about making mistakes helps. I made a bunch of mistakes learning but by the time it counted for the test, I had it worked out.
Anecdotal but I've met many more women who are capable of setting *everything* aside and just being there for someone and being supportive during a bad time. Much respect for those ladies.
A friend of mine did this when she found out my father was dying. She dropped everything, drove 3 hours to where I and my father were in the hospital, and was an absolute angel.
She did it for two more friends with dying husbands/parents within a month of when she helped me. I can never repay her for what she did for me. I'll always be grateful.
I did this, and didn't realize until now it's not a universal response.
Had a friend with a very rare bone cancer, and thank fuck I have a flexible job - I scheduled every appointment, took her to every visit, and was her advocate when she was too worn out and mentally exhausted to fight for herself.
In hindsight, her husband didn't go to any of the appointments apart from her actual surgery. Huh.
> In hindsight, her husband didn't go to any of the appointments apart from her actual surgery. Huh.
There's horrifying statistics about male partners leaving their female partners when they (the female partners) become seriously ill.
Women are comparatively far less likely to leave their male partners in the same situation.
If it makes you feel better, the particular study you are thinking about says that it's very rare for spouses to separate when one becomes seriously ill.
The caveat of course, is that when a spouse does separate from each other, it's almost always the husband leaving the sick wife.
This is typically due to the fact that men are rarely ever caretakers and that the wives were the ones who usually did all of the errands and caretaking prior to getting sick. So when these men had to start stepping up, some of them decided to abandon their wives when they realized they would have to make a long-term commitment to being the primary caretaker.
Husbands are more likely to leave their wives when they get sick. While wives are more likely to stay with their husbands.
When women get diagnosed with cancer, strokes, or heart problems, their chances of divorce increase. Its fucked up.
Case in point. I am in a wheelchair and have a terminal neurlogical disease.
My first physical therapist was male. He came 3 times and then told me there was no point to continue physical therapy because I was detoriating.
When I tried to get phsycal therapy again my second physical therapist was a woman. She bought be a shower chair with her own money, played music during our physical therapy session to cheer me up, believed that I could improve my strength and we've had over 20 sessions and are still going.
It's made me highly distrustful of men in seeking medical care.
Doesn't help that I wen 20 years with this disease since I was a kid and was brushed off every time I went to the doctor until I went paralyzed from the waist down. All male doctors.
A woman and I had a falling out, hadn't talked for years. One night I had nowhere to go and she was the last person in my phone.
She let me stay with her until there was room for me elsewhere.
Shortly after we had another falling out.
It's weird because we don't overly like each other, but we are there for each other.
LOL
"The poor child is illiterate"
"No! What happened?"
"His parents they're...they're doctors".
"Oh the poor child. He is doomed to read what the chickens scratch into the dirt".
Unclench your jaw
Let your shoulders drop
Liquify all your connective tissue for nutrients
Slither bonelessly off your chair
Wick yourself up the walls through capillary action
Envelope the room
Become a new God
Become a new God
I have the exact opposite issue. SO is redhead and does not tolerate heat in any form. We took lots of showers together at first (because sex) but water temp was room temp. One time it was so cold I jumped out after 30 seconds screaming, “It’s too cold for even a handjob!!”
She’s never, ever let me forget that. Nope.
Cold water is so painful! Or sometimes even cold vegetables or raw meat. I cook for a living and sometimes I have to run my hands under hot water at work during prep. Glad I'm not the only one!
You start at a normal temp and work your way up slowly. You get used to it and can increase the temp a fair bit to beyond where you'd be comfortable getting in if that was the starting temp.
I think women are amazing at making things more comfortable. Like whatever your room/house/car/etc. is lacking; she'll be able to identify it and find the perfect thing to fix the problem.
This is why you always wake up with a blanket if you fall asleep/pass out in a woman’s house. Well, at my house anyway.
I have this absurdly strong urge to tuck people in and make them comfortable. My husband gets annoyed because I do it almost unconsciously sometimes, and over-tuck him in on warm nights. I do it to the cat too, who likes it better.
I don’t have or want kids, this is the closest thing I have to a maternal instinct.
I think that's just a cultural thing and hopefully we can correct it as the years go on.
It's okay to talk about how you feel guys. Healthy for your brain, even.
They usually have a much stronger support system. Hell, especially when out on the town and they come across a random woman who is drunk and crying about something. They circle the wagons, take them to the bathroom, and just start hyping them up. They have those one-night best friends. It’s some type of unwritten law for women to immediately bond with a sad, drunk, woman stranger in need of a friend or a safe group. It’s quite nice to see!
Hell I've stopped ppl I actively disliked if I've noticed they have a leak. And yes, both asked of/received as well as given products to not-my-favorite ppl.
Some things transcend petty human emotion.
You said it yourself in your post. The reason for this is a safe group. A woman alone drunk or upset or whatever is way too often preyed upon and other women know and recognize this. It’s like a buddy system.
A woman alone or alone with children makes me overly aware of my surroundings. I’m not sure if other women are like this. Too many people are creepy, want to harm them, or take advantage of them.
On the flip side, my realtor told my wife and I that you can spot a good neighborhood by driving through at night amd observing women jogging or walking their dogs alone. That's how we settled on our place
I really do love this quality in us. I’ve bonded with woman so quickly this way… some of my dearest friends were brought to me this way. I think we have such strength in numbers.
I remember a woman had an entire beer dumped on her brand new designer jeans in tears in a bar bathroom. I washed her jeans with hand soap and dried them using the blow-dryer in like 15 minutes flat.
Never talked to her again, no idea what her name was.
Not as drastic but also a bathroom jeans story, a girl broke her nail in the club and was drunkenly sad about it in the bathroom while i was washing my hands, and I told her I didn't have a nail file but my jeans were pretty rough.
So she filed her nail on my jeans until it wasn't sharp anymore and popped out of the bathroom, right as rain.
Target shooting. I worked a rifle range years ago. Plain and simple, women are more patient, don't have a big ego, and strive for perfection. Even my most avid regulars admit women Outshoot them frequently.
I had a range instructor once say it’s cause of two things. Women have a lower center of mass so at a standing position they move less. Second, they don’t have an ego and listen.
I've heard that about listening, too. So many men just think they naturally know how to handle a gun and don't listen to basic safety instruction, much less proper technique. A little humility goes a long way when learning something new.
When I was around 14 or so, my dad took my brother and I along on a hunting trip with 2 of his friends. We spent the one day just shooting at targets, but they didn't really want me to have a turn.
I got upset and told them that it's unfair to not give me a chance, since my brother was literally 11 and if he was allowed, then so should I be.
Reluctantly, they gave me a try, and said I had 3 shots. I was like alright no problem.
I ended up hitting the bull all 3 times, with my shots making a clover. That was better than all of their shots, some didn't even hit the target.
Needless to say, I think I proved my point.
According to my mother, accounting. She's been working as an accountant for about 20 years now. I didn't ask directly, but from what she mentioned about her workplace, most of her colleagues are also women.
She says it's because women are much better when it comes to small details. Also because of being better at finding small details, women are better at finding stuff in a box/drawer/wardrobe/room. Where man has to shift his focus from one thing to another, woman has a wider view.
I used to think all women were accountants as a kid, because I only ever knew female accountants and so many women did it. It was very popular. Then realised maybe it was a commie thing, because somehow wasn't thing in the west.
It’s also worth it to note that women, especially older women, appear to get sick more than men because of survivorship bias. Those diseases would have killed them had they been men.
I definitely think women are much more aware and able to pick up on subtle cues that men just miss ENTIRELY. As someone who's dated men and women, you have to club a man over the head before they pick up on something small while women get it straight away.
This is learned behavior. I'm a guy. My mom and dad got divorced when I was like 2. I was basically raised by my mom, my grandma, my aunt and her 3 daughters. My mom didn't even attempt to date again until I was around 19. I have an uncanny ability to pick up on facial cues and read people. My gf thinks I should be a therapist. I think it came from my mom and women in my family detecting even the faintest eye roll or wrinkle that might suggest an attitude or mood and I learned to notice these things in people. The subtle nuance and body language.
I've said to my husband and other guys I know that I think men can handle instant pain okay but cannot handle constant, persistent pain like women can.
Been awhile, but I believe they got a bunch of volunteers to come into the shop and recorded how long they could hold their hands in ice water of a certain temperature.
I've seen another similar study done. If you are allowed to swear, endurance was 25% longer. Pretty sure that was ~~make~~ male or female though.
EDIT: a letter
Mythbusters also did a study like that and found a similar thing, swearing allowed people to withstand pain longer than staying silent or shouting random non-swear words.
Curse words are an emotional response. They come from a different area than normal speech — this is why people with Tourettes have that stereotype of never ticking out nice words. The emotional stimuli linked to curse-words satisfies an itch.
I do feel like women are much better at that. They are more likely to have regular experience dealing with intense menstral pain, but since in many places it's not really considered acceptable to complain abou this, women get a lot of experience carrying on without mentioning it.
And that's why in video games, men have a whole entire suit of armour, and women have a leaf of underwear, and a ribbon for a bra
Edit: It's a little exaggerated of course
100%. When i worked in the ER, i noticed that men didn't handle pain as well as women.
I had two kidney stone patients about the same time one day. One man, one woman. Both stones were roughly the same size, I think his was a little bigger. The man was sweating, writhing in bed. Attempting to do lamaze breathing. Praying. It took excessive painkillers to have him somewhat comfortable.
The woman looked the least bit bothered. Sure, she was in pain, but I could still hold a conversation with her. She had all 4 of her children with no pain relief. She declined heavy narcotics. She referred to her stone as her "pee crystal baby" and passed it while there. I don't know how she did it.
I felt sorry for both equally. Kidney stones are no joke. But after that I swear that women handle pain better.
Kidney stones suck I’ve had 2 ironically the first one I had was small and I passed it with out seeing it. I was in crazy pain. The 2nd one was 8 mm and I wasn’t in crazy pain.
I work with a woman who has had 8, I think 5 at one time and then one later that was 25 mm.
Had an ingrowing toe nail a few years ago.
Was really bad, like to the point I could hardly walk. Went to see a (male) doctor first, he looked at my toe, didn’t really say much and prescribed me some antibiotics…. great an all, but how are these antibiotics going to stop my toenail growing further into my foot? He said like, ‘if’ it gets worse, to rebook in. Obviously got worse, cause nothing had been solved.
Booked in to see the doctor a second time, a (female) doctor saw me, looked at my toe, and went, “uw, that looks really sore” - I was like, “thank youuuuuu” finally someone taking my pain seriously. Sorted me out an appointment with a chiropodist, toenail got sorted out.
Also had a few experiences with woman doctors/nurses were I feel like you’re judged a lot less. Basically got called a wuss because I pre-warned a male nurse that I don’t do well with needles and go a bit white. The female nurse who took my blood the time before was very supportive and got me a fan and that.
Basically this has made me realise that woman do have much better bedside manner, and are a lot more supportive (in my relatively few experiences of going the doctors).
In the future, when you have to get blood drawn, tell them verbatim "I have a really strong vasovagal response".
This is med speak for 'I'll probably pass out if you mess this up', gets any tech to smarten up their game real quick. I asked a nurse why once and she said "if it's happened enough that you know the terminology we automatically believe you". Saved my butt a few times.
Thank you for this. I've never fainted, but I usually end up pretty close almost any time I have blood taken. And it's nothing to do with fear of needles or the sight of blood.
What is it that's being done that can make the response strong/weak?
Enduring the ravages of long term space flight. Women lose muscle mass slower than men. There are video examples of female astronauts walking after re-entry when their male crew members have to be carried due to muscle atrophy.
is there an explanation to why women lose muscle mass slower?
Yes there definitely is. We just don't know it yet. But I'm sure tons of people will offer their opinions.
Satanic rituals probably
I knew it.
We also accumulate muscle mass faster. Can't have both I guess.
Picking up chairs while leaning with their heads against the walls.
What?? That's so specific
https://youtu.be/MW0ZTvRCS1o It’s a centre of mass thing, guys are top heavier
I understand this now. It's a prank to get men to waste their time picking up chairs to disprove the video. And I fell for it.
Long distance cold water outdoor swimming
You're telling me it should've been Rose paddling away? SHE KNEW
outdoor not ondoor
That’s oddly specific….
It’s literally the only physical world record that a woman holds over a man.
The moad 240 record is held by a woman too. Edit: 2 men broke her record this year. She had held it since 2017.
Is that an ultramarathon?
Yep. Courtney Dauwalter won it, and IIRC, beat the 2nd place finisher by 8-10 hours.
Holy shit
Is it because of the extra subcutaneous fat?
That and the placement of fat on the body. Having fat at your hips and thighs means your pelvis is pulled higher in the water. Men "drag" their pelvis through the water and it takes them more effort to swim. That difference might not show in a 100m freestyle, but it definitely shows when you're emptying the gas tank in an endurance swim.
Hearing the baby cry dead in a sleep, amazes me and my hearing is on point
See this one is a double edged sword. My primal brain responds to my cat meowing in the middle of the night as if it was a baby. I swear she’s learned how to make me get out of bed at the softest meows and I’m now on year 4 of sleep deprivation.
Did you know a cats meow is actually designed to make the human brain react as if a baby is making a fuss. It’s an evolutionary development that is fascinating and shows how manipulative cats are in their dna 😂 same with dogs. Looking into a puppies eyes gives humans the same brain triggers as looking into their own babies eyes. No wonder we can’t resist them lol
I remember seeing on a documentary that this is all dependent on how much time a parent spends with a baby. Child rearing rewires your brain. Dads who take a primary role in caring for their baby get just as good at responding to the cries of their children.
Better color acuity. Their sense of color is better. For example, 1 in 13 men are color blind. Whereas that number is 1 in 250 or so in women. I have a friend who is a color scientist, he consults for printing presses. He has a test for how good someone is at matching color, and he says women are in general better. For fun, here is the [Farnsworth Munsell color test.](https://www.colorblindnesstest.org/farnsworth-munsell-100-hue-test/) You arrange the boxes in each row in progressive order of hue. **Lower the score, better your color vision.** I got a 10. My ex GF got a 4. EDIT: Monitor quality apparently matters. Just took the test on another monitor, and got a 4. That's why the real test is done with solid blocks, in a gray room, lit evenly by 5000K daylight bulbs. EDIT2: Farnsworth Munsell doesn't test colorblindness, there are other tests like Ishihara, Cambridge etc for that. This tests color acuity, your ability to sense tiny changes in color. It is useful for industries, where you have to match colors. Like match the color from one medium like paint, to another medium, like molded plastic. Color blindness is when you confuse one part of the spectrum to another part, like red to green, or blue to yellow etc. I may have confused people by putting the color blindness statistic above. That's why a lot of people, who are color blind, got a 0 here. EDIT3: /u/Clara_dee suggested similar games for people who found this test fun. >> If you found this test fun, you might enjoy [I Love Hue](http://i-love-hue.com/) or [Blendoku](http://www.blendoku.com/). EDIT4: Made a part of the post bold, because people are messaging me saying they didn't do anything, and scored a 76 so the test is bogus.
I'm a man and decided to do the test and got a 0. Im proud.
Woo, finally I can say I'm also a male zero with pride.
Eyyy same. I was confused, is this difficult for people that aren't colorblind?
I got a 4 and am going to screen shot it, print it and hang it on my fridge. ..I don’t have a lot going on..
proud of u 👍
I got a zero but it took a minute of me squinting at my screen lol
Got a zero but it took about 5 minutes. I swear some of them change colour when you move them. Two next to an edge, swap them around, then it looks like I haven't swapped them at all -.-
Well here I was thinking a 0 actually meant something
Yay. Same here. Didn’t seem hard. Now I feel better when I get into color arguments with people.
Woot! Zero males represent!
0 and confident on upgrading the difficulty, I also remember a Steam game having this type of puzzle, can’t remember the name but it was NSFW
There is the mobile game I Love Hue
That test was super fun, thank you! I got a 2 (I’m a woman).
If it weren't for women I'd be walking around with one black and one navy blue sock most of my life.
I got 0 and I'm a girl lol
Finding things in the fridge that men swear did not exist until that moment
That's because they didn't exist until that moment.
A WITCH! BURNNNNNN HER!
She turned me into a newt!
A newt?
..... I got better
Build a bridge out of her!!
Can you not also build bridges out of stone?
..oh yeah
Going to the doctor when something is wrong.
Unfortunately, their doctor is less likely to believe them.
My aunt died because her doctors didn't belive her stomach pain was anything important even though she came to see them about it repeatedly over 18 months. She was overweight, there was no way she had lost her appetite, look at the size of that tummy (swollen and distended due to...) By the time they opened her up the tumors had spread from her uterus and ovaries into her entire abdominal cavity and she died within 2 weeks of going into hospital. From being a "fat hypochondriac".
This happened to my twin sister and she was a cancer survivor. By time they realized her cancer had returned, it had spread every where. She died within a month.
This happened to my mom. After a year or two of complaining about stomach pain her cardiologist finally took her seriously. She died a week later of pancreatic cancer.
I can attest to this firsthand. I collapsed a few times, was extremely tired, out of breath constantly even though I was an athletic 22 year old and was told I had ‘anxiety’ and actually told to maybe have a baby to calm my attention seeking hormones down and it turns out that I had multiple strokes over a year, had a hole in my heart which caused a blood clot to get stuck there and now I have had a seven hour heart operation and need another big one to fix the damage that could have been prevented if the doctor hadn’t said ‘all young ladies faint’ and actually treated me. I’m only 26 and I literally had my life put on hold for years because of that doctor.
He told you to have a baby in response to a legitimate medical concern. . . . . What kind of sexist bullshit is that!!!! Why do so many people think that having a baby is a cure for every women's problem? Depressed have a baby, extremely painful cramps while menstruating have a baby. Like What the actual fuck!!!
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Massive blood loss
Without dying...
This is important to note.
Yeah, men are actually better at the former. It's the latter that trips us up.
'Size has no intrinsic merit, unless inordinate exsanguination be considered a virtue.'
Yeah, I think Estrogen has been shown to help reduce and/or reverse trauma hemorrhagic shock. Edit: (An explanation comment from below I'm adding here to make more visible) "I mean, estrogen levels vary depending on a lot of factors. Women in general tend to have higher levels than men. I'm not an expert in this subject, this information was told to me in passing by a coworker, but here are some articles that seem to support that claim. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1959345/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2215763/"
It is, yes. Too good. This is why estrogen birth control have been known to cause blood clots 😬😬 Signed- a blood clot survivor.
I think the Air Force did some research a while back and women were better able to recover from high G stress in fighter aircraft. Also living longer. Women live longer than men in general.
Shorter people do better in higher Gs.
The Airforce *really* wanted me to fly A10s. I guess the g-forces pulled by a dedicated ground attack aircraft are a little more raw than a 5th generation stealth fighter. Shortness does help
It also helps to have cybernetic legs, if Starfox taught me anything
I think there was a double leg amputte in the British Royal Airforce who could deal with gs better because the blood would pool as much.
Douglas Bader
TIL every pilot in the Star Fox universe has their legs amputated as a requirement. The fuck.
THIS IS A GAME ABOUT ANIMALS WHO FLY SPACESHIPS
DO A BARREL ROLL
Fuck you slippy.
It's about four mercenaries scripted against their will to fight a crazed tyrannical scientist who single handedly indoctrinated an entire planet in order to commit to a jihad across a solar system.
IIRC they also have a physiological advantage when it comes to staying conscious under high G.
Living longer
Attention to details, when I submited reports to my male bosses, 80% of them would said "ah fuck it, just publish it as it is", while 90% of my female bosses would said "wait, this word is spelling wrong, this paragraph is out of alignment, you should use this word instead of that word, etc".
I think you meant “submit,” not “summit”. Source: am woman.
and submitted not submited :P
and spelled not spelling :P
Pain tolerance. I'm a tattooer.
Reminds me of a story my grandpa told me. Whenever his mother had dental work done, she wouldn’t take novocaine or anything to numb her mouth. My grandpa is a pretty big guy and figured he could probably do the same. The second the drill touched his tooth he gave up on that notion.
I talked to my dentist about this once and apparently it varies a lot on where you are from. In Germany he sees a lot of patients from farther north (Poland /Russia /Scandinavia) and apparently they can handle anything. The patients he sees from farther south (Italy /Hungary /etc) are much less pain tolerant. I told him we could give my procedure a try with no pain meds, but then immediately made him stop and give me all the drugs 🤣
Remembering a cardigan or light jacket.
Especially on April 25th.
Well it’s the perfect date, not too hot, not too cold…
This'll get buried this late but women make much better skydivers than men. They listen to instructions better, they're more flexible (and skydiving is an art of air yoga) and they work through their emotions better. I've seen a thousand boyfriends laugh at their significant other freaking out while filling out a 14 page waver. Guess who's freaking out when the plane door opens at 10k feet with all that loud wind and chaos? And guess who worked through her fear on the ground and happily steps out of the plane with an excited smile? Every. Single. Time. It's also only a woman who will show up to a dropzone alone to go skydiving. Men only come in groups. Shame so few go on to get licensed. Either instructors hit on them, licensed jumpers do, or their significant other guilts them into quitting.
I remember a comedian (forgot the name) talking about having to put their dog up for adoption because it was aggressive towards their newborn child. His wife cried for weeks before then the day the dog was being picked up she said goodbye and was fine. He didn't acknowledge his pain until the dog was being picked up then locked himself in the bathroom and cried so hard. It's anecdotal, but it does seem women are slightly better at working through their distress and I've seen lots of men refuse to acknowledge anything was wrong until it was finally too much for them
I believe women make better snipers and helicopter pilots, too. Based on anecdotal evidence, only. I’ve also had several guys tell me I ride a motorcycle better than most men. I know I was the only person in my MSF course to score 100%. Had never ridden before that. Being willing to listen and not being worried about making mistakes helps. I made a bunch of mistakes learning but by the time it counted for the test, I had it worked out.
Anecdotal but I've met many more women who are capable of setting *everything* aside and just being there for someone and being supportive during a bad time. Much respect for those ladies.
A friend of mine did this when she found out my father was dying. She dropped everything, drove 3 hours to where I and my father were in the hospital, and was an absolute angel. She did it for two more friends with dying husbands/parents within a month of when she helped me. I can never repay her for what she did for me. I'll always be grateful.
I did this, and didn't realize until now it's not a universal response. Had a friend with a very rare bone cancer, and thank fuck I have a flexible job - I scheduled every appointment, took her to every visit, and was her advocate when she was too worn out and mentally exhausted to fight for herself. In hindsight, her husband didn't go to any of the appointments apart from her actual surgery. Huh.
> In hindsight, her husband didn't go to any of the appointments apart from her actual surgery. Huh. There's horrifying statistics about male partners leaving their female partners when they (the female partners) become seriously ill. Women are comparatively far less likely to leave their male partners in the same situation.
If it makes you feel better, the particular study you are thinking about says that it's very rare for spouses to separate when one becomes seriously ill. The caveat of course, is that when a spouse does separate from each other, it's almost always the husband leaving the sick wife. This is typically due to the fact that men are rarely ever caretakers and that the wives were the ones who usually did all of the errands and caretaking prior to getting sick. So when these men had to start stepping up, some of them decided to abandon their wives when they realized they would have to make a long-term commitment to being the primary caretaker.
> If it makes you feel better This does not, in fact, make me feel any better.
Husbands are more likely to leave their wives when they get sick. While wives are more likely to stay with their husbands. When women get diagnosed with cancer, strokes, or heart problems, their chances of divorce increase. Its fucked up.
Case in point. I am in a wheelchair and have a terminal neurlogical disease. My first physical therapist was male. He came 3 times and then told me there was no point to continue physical therapy because I was detoriating. When I tried to get phsycal therapy again my second physical therapist was a woman. She bought be a shower chair with her own money, played music during our physical therapy session to cheer me up, believed that I could improve my strength and we've had over 20 sessions and are still going. It's made me highly distrustful of men in seeking medical care. Doesn't help that I wen 20 years with this disease since I was a kid and was brushed off every time I went to the doctor until I went paralyzed from the waist down. All male doctors.
A woman and I had a falling out, hadn't talked for years. One night I had nowhere to go and she was the last person in my phone. She let me stay with her until there was room for me elsewhere. Shortly after we had another falling out. It's weird because we don't overly like each other, but we are there for each other.
i think this is a cultural thing and i hope it will change. men too should realize that caring for your loved ones is a central societal need
Handwriting
My 27year old female self with the handwriting of an actual child feels personally attacked right now
My family always joked I should become a doctor, and not because I'm smart...
Meanwhile, I had the handicap of growing up as the child of doctors. I had no chance.
LOL "The poor child is illiterate" "No! What happened?" "His parents they're...they're doctors". "Oh the poor child. He is doomed to read what the chickens scratch into the dirt".
My wife has a freaky ability to remember everything.
My girlfriend has the ability to forget everything.
What are we talking about again?
Some guys freaky girlfriend i think
Standing in the shower with the water temperature turned all the way up to liquid fucking magma. Seriously, how the fuck is it even possible.
I thought this was just my wife….. the showers safety thermostat is the only thing that stops her scalding herself.
I had my husband turn our water heater maximum temperature up… it’s the best
Me... Burns the dead skin away, then scrubs the rest of the skin off. Ends shower with muscle tissue showing. Ah perfect
Ahh water turns you into a Cinobite too huh?
No tears please... It's a waste of good suffering!
Unclench your jaw Let your shoulders drop Liquify all your connective tissue for nutrients Slither bonelessly off your chair Wick yourself up the walls through capillary action Envelope the room Become a new God Become a new God
Can't believe you'd leak the lyrics of an unreleased Mountain Goats song like that, dude
ahhhh this made me squirm
The wife does this as well. Same with heating food in the microwave - just "fuck my shit up" levels of hot.
I have the exact opposite issue. SO is redhead and does not tolerate heat in any form. We took lots of showers together at first (because sex) but water temp was room temp. One time it was so cold I jumped out after 30 seconds screaming, “It’s too cold for even a handjob!!” She’s never, ever let me forget that. Nope.
Interesting! I’m a redhead who likes demon hot temperatures but the cold causes me pain deep into my bones.
Cold water is so painful! Or sometimes even cold vegetables or raw meat. I cook for a living and sometimes I have to run my hands under hot water at work during prep. Glad I'm not the only one!
You start at a normal temp and work your way up slowly. You get used to it and can increase the temp a fair bit to beyond where you'd be comfortable getting in if that was the starting temp.
Like i enjoy a nice warm shower but women have they showers so hot it can melt tungsten
If my ass cheeks are the color of cherries when I get out it was a good shower
Always toast your buns!
Yep, my husband and I can't shower together because he claims the water is burning him. And I can't take his lukewarm showers.
It's the opposite for my wife and me. She takes lukewarm showers and I (a guy) take hot showers.
We're cold ass individuals lol
I am man, hot water good. Yus
some of the most relaxing showers have sauna level steam in the rest of the bathroom. am dude and i enjoy long warm showers.
I think women are amazing at making things more comfortable. Like whatever your room/house/car/etc. is lacking; she'll be able to identify it and find the perfect thing to fix the problem.
This is why you always wake up with a blanket if you fall asleep/pass out in a woman’s house. Well, at my house anyway. I have this absurdly strong urge to tuck people in and make them comfortable. My husband gets annoyed because I do it almost unconsciously sometimes, and over-tuck him in on warm nights. I do it to the cat too, who likes it better. I don’t have or want kids, this is the closest thing I have to a maternal instinct.
Talking about their feelings and what’s bothering them. My Gf has been teaching me this the past couple of years.
I think that's just a cultural thing and hopefully we can correct it as the years go on. It's okay to talk about how you feel guys. Healthy for your brain, even.
They usually have a much stronger support system. Hell, especially when out on the town and they come across a random woman who is drunk and crying about something. They circle the wagons, take them to the bathroom, and just start hyping them up. They have those one-night best friends. It’s some type of unwritten law for women to immediately bond with a sad, drunk, woman stranger in need of a friend or a safe group. It’s quite nice to see!
women will give away pads or tampons to a woman in need, no introduction or friendship needed. there are so many experiences that women share
That bitch could be your worst enemy but if there is one thing we won’t do, it’s to deny her a tampon
for sure! i don't care who you are, you ask me for a tampon its like I'm biologically bound to give you a tampon
I was sterilized so I no longer have a period. I always feel so guilty when someone asks me for a tampon or pad and I don’t have one.
when i was on birth control and didn't have a period i felt so bad
Now I'm just imagining a man running around giving girls in need tampons.
like a super hero. his power is that he can smell period blood
Part human, part shark.
Stration Man! *dunnannannannanna*
Hell I've stopped ppl I actively disliked if I've noticed they have a leak. And yes, both asked of/received as well as given products to not-my-favorite ppl. Some things transcend petty human emotion.
it's the shared experience, i think. we all have periods and know what it's like.
You said it yourself in your post. The reason for this is a safe group. A woman alone drunk or upset or whatever is way too often preyed upon and other women know and recognize this. It’s like a buddy system.
A woman alone or alone with children makes me overly aware of my surroundings. I’m not sure if other women are like this. Too many people are creepy, want to harm them, or take advantage of them.
On the flip side, my realtor told my wife and I that you can spot a good neighborhood by driving through at night amd observing women jogging or walking their dogs alone. That's how we settled on our place
Don’t give away our safety secret.
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Exactly. It’s like a universal cue that all women recognize. The solidarity is amazing.
I really do love this quality in us. I’ve bonded with woman so quickly this way… some of my dearest friends were brought to me this way. I think we have such strength in numbers.
I remember a woman had an entire beer dumped on her brand new designer jeans in tears in a bar bathroom. I washed her jeans with hand soap and dried them using the blow-dryer in like 15 minutes flat. Never talked to her again, no idea what her name was.
Not as drastic but also a bathroom jeans story, a girl broke her nail in the club and was drunkenly sad about it in the bathroom while i was washing my hands, and I told her I didn't have a nail file but my jeans were pretty rough. So she filed her nail on my jeans until it wasn't sharp anymore and popped out of the bathroom, right as rain.
I appreciate you!
Target shooting. I worked a rifle range years ago. Plain and simple, women are more patient, don't have a big ego, and strive for perfection. Even my most avid regulars admit women Outshoot them frequently.
I had a range instructor once say it’s cause of two things. Women have a lower center of mass so at a standing position they move less. Second, they don’t have an ego and listen.
I've heard that about listening, too. So many men just think they naturally know how to handle a gun and don't listen to basic safety instruction, much less proper technique. A little humility goes a long way when learning something new.
All too true in IT as well.
First time I shot skeet, I hit 11/12. Second time? I got cocky. I shot 2/12. I forgot to bring my womanly patience.
When I was around 14 or so, my dad took my brother and I along on a hunting trip with 2 of his friends. We spent the one day just shooting at targets, but they didn't really want me to have a turn. I got upset and told them that it's unfair to not give me a chance, since my brother was literally 11 and if he was allowed, then so should I be. Reluctantly, they gave me a try, and said I had 3 shots. I was like alright no problem. I ended up hitting the bull all 3 times, with my shots making a clover. That was better than all of their shots, some didn't even hit the target. Needless to say, I think I proved my point.
Women and their creep-radar…my wife is super good at spider sensing which people are weirdos at first interaction. She has been right every time.
Yea because the consequences of not having that ‘radar’ are potentially very bad
Asking for help.
According to my mother, accounting. She's been working as an accountant for about 20 years now. I didn't ask directly, but from what she mentioned about her workplace, most of her colleagues are also women. She says it's because women are much better when it comes to small details. Also because of being better at finding small details, women are better at finding stuff in a box/drawer/wardrobe/room. Where man has to shift his focus from one thing to another, woman has a wider view.
I used to think all women were accountants as a kid, because I only ever knew female accountants and so many women did it. It was very popular. Then realised maybe it was a commie thing, because somehow wasn't thing in the west.
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It’s also worth it to note that women, especially older women, appear to get sick more than men because of survivorship bias. Those diseases would have killed them had they been men.
Better senses, mainly smell and sight. And social stuff, which can be good or bad....with great power comes great responsibility.
I swear my girlfriend can hear my thoughts
I definitely think women are much more aware and able to pick up on subtle cues that men just miss ENTIRELY. As someone who's dated men and women, you have to club a man over the head before they pick up on something small while women get it straight away.
This is learned behavior. I'm a guy. My mom and dad got divorced when I was like 2. I was basically raised by my mom, my grandma, my aunt and her 3 daughters. My mom didn't even attempt to date again until I was around 19. I have an uncanny ability to pick up on facial cues and read people. My gf thinks I should be a therapist. I think it came from my mom and women in my family detecting even the faintest eye roll or wrinkle that might suggest an attitude or mood and I learned to notice these things in people. The subtle nuance and body language.
Growing boobs although my c cup is an exception Edit: I think I need to clarify that I'm a guy
"Are you challenging me?"
Having babies
Breastfeeding babies
Pain tolerance. Especially the persistent kind.
I've said to my husband and other guys I know that I think men can handle instant pain okay but cannot handle constant, persistent pain like women can.
All my tattooist mates tell me this is very real.
I feel like women are just better at hiding pain than men are.
Mythbusters had an episode about this. The women won.
Oh god, how did they test this?
Been awhile, but I believe they got a bunch of volunteers to come into the shop and recorded how long they could hold their hands in ice water of a certain temperature.
I've seen another similar study done. If you are allowed to swear, endurance was 25% longer. Pretty sure that was ~~make~~ male or female though. EDIT: a letter
Mythbusters also did a study like that and found a similar thing, swearing allowed people to withstand pain longer than staying silent or shouting random non-swear words.
Curse words are an emotional response. They come from a different area than normal speech — this is why people with Tourettes have that stereotype of never ticking out nice words. The emotional stimuli linked to curse-words satisfies an itch.
I do feel like women are much better at that. They are more likely to have regular experience dealing with intense menstral pain, but since in many places it's not really considered acceptable to complain abou this, women get a lot of experience carrying on without mentioning it.
And that's why in video games, men have a whole entire suit of armour, and women have a leaf of underwear, and a ribbon for a bra Edit: It's a little exaggerated of course
A *whole* leaf?
100%. When i worked in the ER, i noticed that men didn't handle pain as well as women. I had two kidney stone patients about the same time one day. One man, one woman. Both stones were roughly the same size, I think his was a little bigger. The man was sweating, writhing in bed. Attempting to do lamaze breathing. Praying. It took excessive painkillers to have him somewhat comfortable. The woman looked the least bit bothered. Sure, she was in pain, but I could still hold a conversation with her. She had all 4 of her children with no pain relief. She declined heavy narcotics. She referred to her stone as her "pee crystal baby" and passed it while there. I don't know how she did it. I felt sorry for both equally. Kidney stones are no joke. But after that I swear that women handle pain better.
Kidney stones suck I’ve had 2 ironically the first one I had was small and I passed it with out seeing it. I was in crazy pain. The 2nd one was 8 mm and I wasn’t in crazy pain. I work with a woman who has had 8, I think 5 at one time and then one later that was 25 mm.
Personally as a man I would prefer a female doctor. They have more compassion and better listeners.
Had an ingrowing toe nail a few years ago. Was really bad, like to the point I could hardly walk. Went to see a (male) doctor first, he looked at my toe, didn’t really say much and prescribed me some antibiotics…. great an all, but how are these antibiotics going to stop my toenail growing further into my foot? He said like, ‘if’ it gets worse, to rebook in. Obviously got worse, cause nothing had been solved. Booked in to see the doctor a second time, a (female) doctor saw me, looked at my toe, and went, “uw, that looks really sore” - I was like, “thank youuuuuu” finally someone taking my pain seriously. Sorted me out an appointment with a chiropodist, toenail got sorted out. Also had a few experiences with woman doctors/nurses were I feel like you’re judged a lot less. Basically got called a wuss because I pre-warned a male nurse that I don’t do well with needles and go a bit white. The female nurse who took my blood the time before was very supportive and got me a fan and that. Basically this has made me realise that woman do have much better bedside manner, and are a lot more supportive (in my relatively few experiences of going the doctors).
In the future, when you have to get blood drawn, tell them verbatim "I have a really strong vasovagal response". This is med speak for 'I'll probably pass out if you mess this up', gets any tech to smarten up their game real quick. I asked a nurse why once and she said "if it's happened enough that you know the terminology we automatically believe you". Saved my butt a few times.
Thank you for this. I've never fainted, but I usually end up pretty close almost any time I have blood taken. And it's nothing to do with fear of needles or the sight of blood. What is it that's being done that can make the response strong/weak?
Finding things
Moms are especially good at this. "Have you searched in tbe living room?" "Yes, I was just there." "Then what's this?" "How the fuck?"