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Bob Seger? Really? 

Christ.

It's the only song of his I like.

Fun Fact:

When I was a preteen, I used to think the line "You still aim high!" was "You still ain't mine!"  This led me to believe that he was singing about a "gambling" girl who was a.) either too high a roller, or b.) too convinced he was a "safe bet" to ever be with him.  Then I realized the line wasn't what I thought it was, and my reading of the song was completely destroyed.

Also added to the list of stuff that made me cry today:

HI MY NAME IS GUS

I cry like a bitch when chopping onions.

Also with laughter at "Space Argument".

I cry every day because Horso exists.

Horso will continue to weep a single tear every evening until all evil is vanquished.

So I guess war, famine, Pakistani floods etc., dont affect you as much as some silly popular music from the 1970's? I'll remember that, the next time we debate something meaningful. Assuming that ever happens here.... ha ha ha.

I wouldn't say they don't affect me.  They just don't make me cry.

What good does a tear do injustice, natural disaster, loss of a loved one?  What tear is not an insult to true regret?  The ant does not cry over a destroyed ant hill.  The ant stings the destroyer, then sets to rebuilding.  

No, My Friends, I will not cry for the real.  The real deserves more than a tear, if it deserves anything.  (Does it?) A tear is nothing, as art is nothing.  The two deserve one another.  

There are those who hold that art is everything.  (Is it?)  For this, too, I weep.

No.

I used to cry several times a day.   After the accident, I would cry at almost anything.  I would cry when I was yelled at, I would cry when I was sent to my room, I would cry when I was threatened with a whipping, I would cry as I was being whipped, I would cry when people died, I would cry when I watched the news, I would cry when visitors would leave, I would cry when I got a bad grade, I would cry when I was the last person chosen for kickball, I would cry when I didn't get a Valentine from everyone in the class, I would cry when I was made to go to karate practice, I would cry when I was made to go to baseball practice, I would cry when I was sent to bed, and I would cry when I could not get to sleep.  

I was, for a time, known for crying.  I was made fun of for crying.  Whenever I would be made fun of for crying, naturally, it would make me cry.

The only thing that didn't make me cry was physical pain.  I think I cried myself dry of those tears in the hospital. 

Suddenly, at the age of thirteen, I stopped crying.  Nothing seemed to mean enough to me to make me want to cry.  Not too long after I stopped crying, my first best friend was hit and killed by a car.  I couldn't cry at his funeral.  I had to stare into the sun for some time just to be able to produce a tear for the benefit of his family.

I say I stopped crying, but that's not entirely true.  I stopped crying at the real things.  I noticed music, movies, and literature still made me cry.  Following this realization, I turned to those three things as I never had before.

I wouldn't cry at something real again until I was twenty-three.  Then again at thirty.

That makes me sad.

What I get out of this story is that you are weak like a woman. I'm surprised and sickened by you, Thursty, and feel I have no choice but to become for you the abusive parental figure you apparently never had. I will make you into a man.  The ironic part is you'll be doing a great deal more crying going forward. The only thing more ironic than that is the only thing we're really likely to accomplish is me fulfilling my need to dominate. Eventually we'll probably get to a point where you'll be like Lennie in the scene in 'Of Mice and Men' where he finally fights back.

Jack S. Pharaoh wrote:

I will make you into a man.

Brace yourself Goiter. This really will make your eyes water!

Jack S. Pharaoh wrote:

[I] feel I have no choice but to become for you the abusive parental figure you apparently never had.

You should reread my whiny little paragraph.

These head movies make my eyes rain.

Unless, by abusive, Jack meant something far, far worse.

Cry?  You bunch of girly-men!

Never be afraid to cry Jake.  I want you to imagine that I have stolen all your p0rn, disconnected your internet, stolen your mobile phone and removed all the doors in your house so you have no privacy.

How does that make you feel?

I'll just spank it to the people walking by.  My neighbor's kinda hot.

Jack S. Pharaoh wrote:

What I get out of this story is that you are weak like a woman.

What, able to pass a squirming 10-pound infant through your nether parts, let it gnaw on your boobies for months, choose to do it again (and again), and tell amusing stories about it? As opposed to guys, who fall over if a baby hits them in the nuts:

neglet wrote:

What, able to pass a squirming 10-pound infant through your nether parts, let it gnaw on your boobies for months, choose to do it again (and again), and tell amusing stories about it? As opposed to guys, who fall over if a baby hits them in the nuts:

Also, the "gnawing" the baby does is toothless and gentle. (I wouldn't say it if I hadn't experienced it firsthand!) By the time the teeth come in, the nipples are toughened up enough to take it.

Finally, do women have a higher pain threshold than men? Recent studies suggest that they do not. Jeffrey Mogil, professor of pain studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada asserts: "Females are more sensitive to pain, less tolerant and more able to discriminate different levels of pain than males.... This is true in studies of both humans and animals."

According to the linked article, "[p]regnancy actually is the exception to the rule. While pregnant, women do become progressively less sensitive to pain as they get closer to giving birth. Natural painkillers like endorphins are elevated during pregnancy and labor, helping fight pain."

Also, it is common for a woman to receive an epidural beforehand.

Does giving childbirth hurt more than getting kicked in the nuts? My guess is that it does. On the other hand, they are both different kinds of pain, and both delivered to a body in differing states of anticipation of the pain. The testicles aren't typically primed for a sharp blow to them. (And the man's protective reflex is understandable from a biological point of view: the more compromised the testicles, the more compromised the chances of spreading genetic material.)

There is no real way to know how a woman's perceived pain in an instance stacks up to a man's. Could a man deal with the pain of childbirth better than a woman? Would a woman smile and laugh if kicked in the nuts? There's also no real way to test this without doing a sex change, and in that event the person would be experiencing the pain with nerve-damaged genitalia.

Would testing a hermaphrodite help us arrive at an answer? I guess it depends on the state of the hermaphrodite's genitalia. Also, though, the question must be asked: does this person experience pain as a woman or as a man? How does one accurately compare a sharp, sudden pain to a sharp, constant pain? With the violence of brainwave responses? If the pain of getting kicked in the nuts proves to cause a more violent, temporary brainwave response, should/could it be compared to the other pain? (That is, if a nut kick reaches a higher number on a Dolorimeter scale than the highest number reached during childbirth, does that mean the nut kick hurts more? After all, the pain from such a kick is more fleeting than the pain of childbirth.)

The best way to test one gender's tolerance/threshold against the other would probably be to measure brainwave responses to the infliction of an identical injury (running a hand under two identical sewing machine's needles, for example).

But how does one gender perceive and/or welcome pain in comparison to the other? Which gender is more likely to choose to get tattoos, and what sociological factors are involved in the choice-making process?

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It's clear that Jack S. Pharaoh spoke hastily when he declared me to be weak "like a woman." At the same time, I think it's hasty to declare the whole of womankind to be more tolerant of pain than the whole of mankind. (Not that neglet did this.)

What a wonderful forum this is!

A basketball?!  SRSLY?!  No, I do not need to see that.

Has anyone mentioned yet that Goiter is weak like a women? If not, I think it should be brought up.