Women found to report much more pain than men

[MuseRider]

17. LOL

My husband hurt his back years ago. He is a notorious baby, he even admits to this. He laid around in the living room and swore he could not even get up to go to the bathroom so I fashioned him a urinal. I still had two little boys at home to take care of so I was pretty busy already. Every time I was out of the room and not paying attention to him he would start to moan, you know the drill. At one point when I was cooking dinner and taking care of the boys he started in and then started really loudly moaning, "What's to become of meeeeeee?" I had had it after 4 days of this and I answered his question. I told him if he kept this up what was to become of him was I was going to hold his pillow over his face until he stopped moaning. Of course I would never have done that, he knew it but it did stop him. After that I would just mention cancer, blindness, MS, congestive heart failure etc. and he stopped totally and got up finally. He does not whine as much as he used to. Big baby, he had nannies to care for his every need when growing up so I am certain his every boo boo was treated like a major injury.

I do not whine but I do complain when my RA is flared up. Yup, I report that pain. Men should report their pain. Whining is being a baby, reporting pain is just what you need to do when discussing treatment. There was no good done to men who were told to man up. There is no good done to men or women who are babied when they whine, it is not productive and you never know who is around the corner with a pillow.