Feminists claim 70% of people who deal with chronic pain are women. Meanwhile, many studies show that the rates of chronic pain between men and women are actually very similar and close.

Icy-Picture-192 · 2026-01-02T05:33:08+00:00

The amount of men that work themselves to the bone, especially with so much more physical labor then women is insane. Mens bodies are not machines. They break down too.

There's no way that women deal with more chronic pain then men.

Ordinary_Rich_3334 · 2026-01-02T06:15:30+00:00

The thing that boggles my mind with feminism is you get told the women that say “kill all men” and women laughing at men’s suicides are not apart of feminism. So you bring it up to feminists and then they bash you and say “women’s issues are more important yours don’t matter. Have some emotional maturity”.

Even a toddler can understand treat others like you want to be treated. I don’t know of any man that bashes women as horribly and widespread as women bash men. Emotional maturity is actually realizing why support a cause that hurts me and doesn’t care for me because no man I know WANTS to get into a relationship and not love, care, and be there for that women.

You can be emphatic to the other gender’s struggles and your own. Why is that so hard????

AlternativeOption313 · 2026-01-02T03:24:12+00:00

And for some reason, Reddit isn't letting me edit my post, but here's another study showing how common occasional lower back pain in adults is and how, again, the numbers are very similar amongst men and women.

https://blogs.cdc.gov/nchs/2020/01/03/4741/

No_Spite3593 · 2026-01-02T06:00:35+00:00

The only way I could see feminists being right on this one is because men with dehabilitating pain opt to commit suicide more often.

Hard to complain about chronic pain and claim it's a gendered issue when you aren't alive.

UsualStrategy1955 · 2026-01-02T13:35:06+00:00

I’ve worked in female dominated fields for the past couple of decades. What I’ve noticed is that physical/emotional discomfort, vulnerability, and claims of mistreatment are units of value within feminized hierarchies.

A woman can increase her status and influence within a feminized hierarchy, by signaling to other women that she has been slighted or that she is particularly vulnerable to being hurt/wronged.

Women who accomplish this are centered, supported, and affirmed by the group and their needs and preferences are prioritized.

Obviously this is just a half cooked theory, but it makes perfect sense to me that women would want a monopoly on pain. I think that - for women - pain equals vulnerability and vulnerability confers status and influence (AKA power).

HiveMindKing · 2026-01-02T07:04:57+00:00

That’s because doctors don’t get the feel good chemicals from helping men. I have had a chronic illness from age 2 when I was a kid doctors went above and beyond. The moment I turned 19 or 20 they basically just didn’t even listen to a word I said and didn’t even bother to read my medical history.

It’s probably a mistake but I basically have given up on doctors, rheumatoid disorders are complicated and can’t be treated by someone half assing it.

PrimeWolf88 · 2026-01-02T08:55:12+00:00

This sounds a lot like how men fighting in war leaves feminists to claim women are the most affected by war - Complete and delusional misandry.

Technical_Joke7180 · 2026-01-02T08:58:42+00:00

Men go to war, women most affected

Capital-Box164 · 2026-01-02T03:36:21+00:00

why not dismantle the shithole healthcare system and make it better instead of saying: "wahmen have so much chronic pain" and so less people in general suffer from chronic pain.

Chupadedo · 2026-01-02T17:44:26+00:00

Many years into learning about feminism, it absolutely doesn´t surprise me that they lie about statistics. That´s what they do. Lie to get their way.

63daddy · 2026-01-02T17:06:01+00:00

Feminists spreading disinformation to make women look oppressed and victimized. Now that’s hard to believe.

critical_Bat · 2026-01-02T09:50:48+00:00

The simple answer is so they can control the narrative. It goes well with women were excluded from medical research and banned from having credit cards until whenver.

Salamadierha · 2026-01-02T17:23:47+00:00

70% of those who COMPLAIN about chronic pain are women.
I remember going on a ride, and talking to a guy about his unusual riding style. He said he couldn't bend over very much, and when I pushed he said because he's got cancer across here, lower abdomen and here. hips.
He just wanted to get out on rides in the time he had left.

TabulaRasa5678 · 2026-01-02T20:15:47+00:00

Another topic that is being "missed" is that an overwhelming amount of women are no longer caretakers to their elderly parents and men step in to pick up the slack.

I've been taking care of my elderly mother for more than 23 years and it has devastated me. I have chronic pain in my legs from never getting any rest, having to take care of her household and mine. She constantly does things that she shouldn't and winds up in the hospital and rehab homes. I lost 80 pounds (from depression and just not being hungry/not eating) and got diabetes type 2. The doctor says that Type 2 diabetes can be brought on from constant stress... what a shock.

My mother has never worked a full-time year of work in her life. I got a job at a greenhouse when I was 14, moving flats of plants from one house to another in 110° F heat. She got married right after graduating high school. Then, she got separated from her first husband and monkeybranched to my dad before she even got divorced. I found that out by accident and I still wish I could unsee that because I thought that my dad could do no wrong.

She openly asks me, at 98 years old, "Why can't I just die?" I tell her that she never put any stress on her body in her life. My dad passed away at 64 and he worked all the damn time in a city municipal garage, breathing in carbon monoxide long before they put ventilation into the garages.

My dad was a great guy. His funeral was huge. The police chief and the fire chief both came in their dress blues. I never realized what a high degree of respect came from wearing dress blues, until I became a volunteer firefighter myself.

He smoked two pack of filterless Pall Malls a day. He drank after work and my mother bitched at him all the time about it. I think it was a vicious circle for him. I miss him every day.

I constantly think that had it been the other way around with my parents passing away that my chronic pain wouldn't exist. I know that probably sounds horrible, but that's what I think.

WilliamRobutt · 2026-01-02T21:32:23+00:00

Anyone with a modicum of critical thinking can observe that it's obviously men who experience the vast majority of chronic pain given that the "research" (which is mainly self-reporting) states 50%, but people are liars. Men lie in favour of not admitting to pain (because when men are weak, they are attacked and not helped), and women lie in favour of inventing pain for attention (because women crave attention, and they are helped with then are weak).

I live with chronic pain. I have a spinal injury and middle of last year I had a serious injury which I am awaiting surgery for.

People do not stand up for me. People do not give a shit. They give me angry and judge-y looks when I refuse to lift things (I simply cannot do so anymore without risking further injury). The HR woman at work has literally mocked me for being too "sensitive." (As a consequence of my health problems, I have taken about the maximum amount of sick leave and used most of my vacation days just for sick leave.)

These aren't complaints. These are just illustrative observations from my life, but my life is nothing special. This is just normal for average men. Complaining for a man serves no function. You don't get any help, and you get attacked more. A lot of men suffer in silence because it is frequently a man's optimal choice.

There is also a couple of other psychological factors at play.

-Men have an out-group bias (they favour women) and women have an in-group bias (they also favour women).

-People frequently answer surveys how they think they are "supposed" to answer them, rather than reporting factually. That can mean anything, depending on the person's perspective, but the point is that it is not reliable data collection.

RealStarkey · 2026-01-03T16:13:15+00:00

Feminism = women are special and more likely to be victims, men are not.

SpaceFish24-7 · 2026-01-02T15:55:48+00:00

So whats their malfunction

Mental_Decision_mkng · 2026-01-08T14:12:21+00:00

did you even look at the article? It literally discusses women and men’s chronic pain.

“Women were more likely to have chronic pain (25.4%) and high-impact chronic pain (9.6%) than men (23.2% and 7.3%, respectively).“

How does lying about research help men? Also CDC is not ”feminist” by a long shot.

Ijatsu · 2026-01-08T14:16:55+00:00

Difficult to have chronic pain when you're dead as well. Imagine if men had the same longevity as women they'd have more chronic pain than women. That 70% is probably just the reporting rate of chronic pains to doctors.

Glad-Way-637 · 2026-01-02T13:39:53+00:00

this group is about men's rights. Who gives a shit what feminist say.

Salamadierha · 2026-01-02T17:29:52+00:00

Chronic pain comes from physical damage. Both sexes are prone to it, women because they are more fragile and break easier, men because they tend to be doing more physical jobs or put themselves in the way of harm more often.

As always with these things, failures on the original statistics recorded are to be expected in older studies.

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