“The women’s reports of pain are received seems to be at least as influenced by cultural stereotypes about men as about women. The stoicism expected of men is cited as one of the reasons that their pain is taken more seriously; their reports of pain are less likely to be doubted, because it’s assumed they’re more reluctant to make them in the first place. But there’s no rational reason that men’s assumed stoicism should result in women’s pain not being taken seriously.”
