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Actually, very true. Men have one X chromosome, women have two. That means men are far more prone to disorders resulting from an irregular gene on the X chromosome. A easily proven example of this are the common forms of color blindness - while women can be affected by it, far more men are affected by it.
I know.
If I remember correctly, women have been shown to have the advantage in endurance over various adverse conditions also, which has nothing to do with chromosomalabnormalities.
You make it sound like a bad thing. You aren't buying into gender constructs about shrugging off pain being more admirable, are you? Really, there's nothing beneficial about that. Having a high pain tolerance is something that tends to develop if you have enough exposure to pain. It's not necessarily a good thing. And I say this as someone whose splinted a broken bone and hunted down someone who can drive me to the ER without shedding a tear.
Honestly, I tend to have very little patience with anyone, regardless of sex, who makes a big production out of pain. I'm quite a coward myself - I do my best to avoid pain if possible - but once it's there, I deal. It's not as though it's magically going to go away if one cries and groans and laments.
BTW, a year ago last autumn, I fell and broke my right wrist. I was nursing one of my parrots around the clock at the time, so I immobilized it and went about doing what I needed to do, including all of my regular chores taking care of my crew. Two weeks later, when Ziggy was on the road to recovery, I went to the doctor and had surgery - both the radius and the ulna were broken and out of line, together with several of the small bones in the wrist - I now have a metal plate and six screws in that forearm. During that two week period, I drove Ziggy to the avian vet at the U of I (2 hours away) five times. And my car is standard transmission (which I found is quite possible to drive one armed, even if that arm is the left one).
So you'll forgive me if I'm not terribly impressed by your broken arm story.