Men Vs Women

[eric n]

thanks mike

[treelizard]

Does anybody have any research about how men and women handle blunt trauma differently? I'm still looking for it, just for my own interest. I remember reading or hearing somewhere that women handle prolonged pain much better than men and men handle blunt trauma much better. I just wonder whether taking full-on hits is more jarring/disorienting for women than men. Of course training could help with this (for both men and women), but I wonder what the differences are. My anecdotal evidence suggests that women do handle prolonged pain better, btw. I know that the biggest thing I work on that's not just technical (drills, form, etc.) (have come a long way but still working on) is staying in the fight mentally after taking a couple headshots or even body shots, and yet I've had really awful prolonged conditions that I had no idea were that bad until I saw a chiropractor/acupuncturist/doctor because I just ignored it. So I think it'd be fascinating if men/women handled pain differently. I think it would also be another point on the side of men at better boxers/kickboxers -- unless you had a male and a female with a chronic injury, lol.

[treelizard]

On inward vs. outward, I think a lot of that is training. For example, I know for myself if someone is going way too hard, I'm probably not going to say anything because I feel like I've trained really hard and tried to act a certain way so men WILL go as hard when they're training. I've actually had guys apologize to me after class on several occasions, and me saying "It was my fault, I didn't block it" doesn't put them at ease (but another guy telling them they didn't do anything wrong, will). I think guys that aren't assholes have a natural aversion to hitting women, and it's not really something I'd want to desensitize out of people (though if they are good guys I'm sure they wouldn't randomly hit women for no reason no matter how much they do in training). But anyways, I know on many occasions I've just sat there and put up with something that was really incredibly painful (i.e. someone practicing sweeps wrong and making them really hard kicks in the same spot over and over again) without saying anything because I'd rather deal with that than have people go easy on me day in and day out. Also it's kind of tough to tell why people are asking certain questions...one guy I trained taijutsu with would ask "did that hurt?" and I never knew if he was really trying to gauge his level of intensity or if he was testing my reaction. I assumed the latter and would of course never admit that he was going way harder than he needed to for a drill that someone couldn't even defend... I just didn't want to give him the satisfaction... but of course he could have been asking for perfectly benevolent reasons.

Anyways, I'd be interested if reaction/recovery time is different between men and women. When I take a good hit--even if it's just a good body shot not even a kidney or head shot--it is so incredibly jarring for a few seconds. I've been slowly trying to improve on how long it takes me to recover from that, it used to be probably a good ten or fifteen seconds. However I've seen men take full-on shots and just keep going, not even really notice til later, or smile through it like Forrest Griffin does.

[Tom Yum]

These Women Marines don't bother with research, polls & dialogues justifying how tough women could be, they're living it.

[eric n]

there are NO LADY MARINES. Females in the Corps are refered to as WMs...women marines.