Why do women love talking about their ailments and men just don ?

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wiener dog May 2013 9:19am, 3 May 2013 1,147 posts	0 wiener dog I do think men tend to moan a bit more ........ but I will openly admit that I am a dreadful hypochondriac and really should stay off google when I think I have something.
Endorphins Junky May 2013 9:20am, 3 May 2013 1,047 posts	0 Endorphins Junky It is a personality thing, not a gender thing. End of. IMHO.
Dooogs May 2013 9:22am, 3 May 2013 620 posts	0 Dooogs Tendency to whinge splits by a lot of factors, gender being just one of them. I’m infinitely less hardcore than OH but that’s largely down to me being (Hiberno)-English and OH being Israeli…
sheri3004 May 2013 9:23am, 3 May 2013 16,384 posts	0 sheri3004 I can't stand talking about my health and I hate going to the doctor and refuse to do so until it becomes absolutely unavoidable, however certain men of my acquaintance love nothing more. Yeah, it's a personality thing.
Oysterboy May 2013 9:27am, 3 May 2013 6,223 posts	0 Oysterboy My OH hurt his neck recently after sleeping funny. It was a good week before he stopped banging on about it. I generally suffer in silence.
HermanBloom May 2013 9:30am, 3 May 2013 3,169 posts	0 HermanBloom I seem to have a split personality on this. General health things, I rarely talk about. Any running-type stuff though, then I am immediately on here or asking people from the club if I am about to lose a leg.
DeeGee May 2013 9:49am, 3 May 2013 14,199 posts	0 DeeGee Prehistorically, man went out to hunt and gather food all day, whereas women would have the unenviable job of bearing and caring for children. This means that when it comes to full-on pain, women have a higher threshold as we men have nothing that comes near to squeezing a human being out of such a small space. This explains the age old question of why women convert HM to Marathon times more tightly than men. However, because failure to get out and hunt/gather every day would result in starvation for the whole family, men are better at just getting the hell on with it. That's why the phenomenon of man 'flu exists, because if it's enough to strike us down, then it's a really bad case of the flu and not just the sniffle that the rest of the family had. And that's scientific proof!
Son of a Pronator Man May 2013 10:57am, 3 May 2013 6,984 posts	0 Son of a Pronator Man who is this Don that men talk about ?
swittle May 2013 11:48am, 3 May 2013 23,389 posts	0 swittle Don Corleone?
JenL May 2013 11:50am, 3 May 2013 24,665 posts	0 JenL "...men are better at just getting the hell on with it..." :: hoots with laughter