answer:I don’t think it has much to do with the absolute pain threshold of men. It may or may not be true that men are more prone to complaining about pain than women are. I don’t know the numbers so I really can’t say. I do think that this is more of an anthropological thing – call it “revenge of the women”. In many other physical things, womens’ bodies are not as strong (or large, or limber) as mens’. In a wrestling match, the male is more likely to win than the female, and so on. So psychologically, women have built up this legend ‘that we can bear more pain, which makes us stronger” as an invented compensation mechanism to make them feel better about the lack of physical strength. Whether it is true or not, whether it is provable or not, doesn’t matter to women – it is the legend – the mystique – that brainwashes women. it’s harmless, and if it makes women feel better about themselves, I have no problems with it. But just because women think it doesn’t make it true. Of course, this is just my theory.