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Man Says Women Should Stop Complaining About Period Pain Unless They Know What A Scraped Knee Pain Feels Like, Gets Shut Down
No matter how woke a man is there are particular physical experiences that women go through that even the most empathetic (cis) men will never truly understand – giving birth and periods. Sure there are guys out there who have taken on labor simulator challenges to feel what childbirth is like as well as others who have tried ‘menstruation machines’ but nothing compares to the real experience, or so we thought.
Apparently, periods are small potatoes to other forms of bleeding – for example, a skinned knee. A guy took to Twitter to not only imply that women overreact about cramps, but also that when it came to pain nothing quite compares to scrapping your knee during a game. Well sir, in that case, can you imagine being a female athlete? In response to his ludicrous statement, women across the internet didn’t hesitate to put him in his place.
This Twitter user received a heavy flow of backlash after he tweeted a comparison between period pain and a skinned knee
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Nameless Twitter user @_sargee tweeted out a photo recently of a soccer player in the process of falling and scraping their knees.
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With a caption that mansplained how women needed to stop complaining about their period pains until they had experienced this kind of pain.
And got destroyed in the comments by women everywhere
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Period pain can result in more than just irritating cramps. Many women suffer from dysmenorrhea, which results in debilitating periods. Symptoms of this include intense cramping along with, back pain, nausea, diarrhea, and headaches. Cramps are caused by too many prostaglandins, a chemical produced by the uterus that causes the muscles to tighten and relax.
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As some women in the comments pointed out there are female athletes who have experienced both types of pain and agree that period pain is worse. Interestingly enough female athletes on a professional level or with rigorous workout regimens can stop having a period altogether – an occurrence called hypothalamic amenorrhea. Hormones in the brain send a signal that tells signal hormones in the ovary not to produce estrogen and progesterone. The cause behind this is still unclear but so far it has been deduced it is the bodies way of saying it does not have enough fat to support a pregnancy.
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deathrose 5 years ago
Once, my husband experienced testicular torsion (twisting of the sperm tubes) from a groin sprain from trying to keep up with me on the line of a restaurant we worked at. When we got to the hospital and got everything sorted out the doctor jokingly told him he has now experienced the pain of period cramping. My husband looked at me all wide-eyed and just said "Seriously!? Omg I'm sooo sorry." All i could do was laugh along side the doctor.
Anna Constantinou 5 years ago
I would have thought testicular torsion pain would be similar to ovarian torsion pain, which can be even worse than dysmenorrhea (painful periods/killer cramps). Not all periods are as painful as that, only 10% of them.
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Neferpitou 5 years ago
Honestly is sounds like the guy was just joking and people are taking him too seriously.
JessG 5 years ago
I think it was a joke too. I mean, that really was a stupid tweet if not
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Parmeisan 5 years ago
Right?! That's the most important point here but nobody seems to be saying it: Does he seriously believe that women *haven't* experienced that?
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Men and women both get cluster headaches and they have been described many times as "one of the worst pains a person can experience" and are said by female sufferers to be worse than childbirth. This man is being a wuss, yes, but cluster headaches have beaten broken bones, grazed-off skin, burns, nerve pain, endometriosis, operations on various parts of me... I'll probably get accused of going 'off point' by some pedant but here is a pain which is generally considered to be the worst and men get them too. There is pain that 'levels the playing field'.
Heather Dangerfield 5 years ago
Can confirm. Get cluster headaches weekly. They have been known to cause suicides and injury as people go to extreme measures to escape them.
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tuzdayschild 5 years ago
What in God's name makes this guy think women don't get scrapped knees. Cause if women's knees don't get scrapped, nobody told my knees about it.
Saskia Alexandra 5 years ago
Especially as the picture on the right is actually of a woman's knees...
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Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago
Why does the introductory post have to include "(cis) men"? Is it just trying to be inflammatory?
Karen Elizabeth 5 years ago
Because many trans men still have periods and experience the cramps that go along with them, or did experience them before undergoing surgery and can remember them and sympathize appropriately. If you just say "men don't experience this" you are erasing the experience of the men who *have* experienced it because they were born with a uterus to shed the lining of.
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TwiceRice23 5 years ago (edited)
It's pretty safe to say most women DO know what a scraped knee feels like. Women were all kids. Women play sports. Reminder: women are HUMAN.
Schrödinger's Dog 5 years ago
Oh nooo....the big tough athlete scraped his knee. Does he need a Band-Aid?
Phoebes 5 years ago
Right?!? I like most of the stories, but LOVE the crazy comments!!
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I mean, I get cramps, but if ya'll are passing our from your cramps you need to see a doctor pronto.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Why? So he can tell me it's all in my head again? I didn't get help until I went on birth control for 3 years. Which is why I went on birth control to begin with. My doctor didn't prescribe it; I went to the local Planned Parenthood offices and talked to a doctor there.
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Deborah B 5 years ago
WTF? Is a skinned knee the worst pain this twit has ever suffered? I mean yeah, it stings a little. Then you slap some germolene on it and keep playing. I'm lucky enough to have pretty easy periods, and they still hurt a lot worse than freaking turf burn.
diane a 5 years ago (edited)
Actually I will admit a badly scraped knee can be extremely painful. I once tripped going up stairs with a very rough sisal/coir carpet. Took a chunk out of my knee leaving exposed nerves. It was about the size of a 10p but even being exposed to air hurt.So deep I had to get medical attention because of the pain and it took a couple of weeks to heal over. But that was ONCE. Periods are every month for around 50% of your life.
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I agree with the original comment that the photo does not look like an adult footballer's knee - more like a woman. Hairless pale and softer. I wonder how smal his ACTUAL scrape was? I used to have horrendous pain that laid me up for a couple of days most months as well as dysmenorrhea. I would gladly have swapped ONE period for a scraped knee, the pain would be less and would be gone in the same length of time.
Captain Planet 5 years ago
OMG and ANOTHER shutdown post. You feel connected with your fellow men/women? No worries. Boredpanda is here to break you up, polarisation is the new marketing strategy. Creating hate = discussion = website engagement and clicks.
Up All Night 5 years ago
Chill, this is not a Men vs Women post, just the "Dumbass of the Week" post. Everyone likes those.
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Lizzie the Crayon 5 years ago
At least you can put a band aid and neosporn on your knee to make the bleeding stop...
Mads Sly 5 years ago
Apparently scraped knees cause pelvic dislocation, internal muscle spasms, the expulsion of congealed blood and rotting tissue(with a possibility of Toxic Shock under certain circumstances), massive hormone storm, possible diarrhoea, and internal anxiety and humiliation over having to go about daily life as if nothing is different. For anywhere between 3-7(sometimes more). Roughly every month. For decades.
Oh, you scraped a few layers of skin off your knee? And will be given dressings and painkillers and sympathy from everyone? And it will heal over in about a month? notsurpris...754c46.jpg 
Cassie 5 years ago
Turf burn to the knees? I took a pavement burn to my face flying over the handlebars of a bike when the rear brake failed and only the front brake worked and I took a pavement burn to the knees falling off my skateboard when some douche bag hit the back of my board with the front tire of his bike. This guy thinks females can't get skinned knees? Seriously? Does he think we can only fall daintily onto pillows or something?
Cindy Snow 5 years ago
Uh, women get periods and scraped knees... It's also not a contest. People all experience pain uniquely so don't tell any woman( or man) how little you think their pain counts especially when you don't have said body part.
Gary Burley 5 years ago
i went back to work one day later, after having avoided a heart attack by having an artery scraped by a wire. if poor baby wants his dummy placed back in his pram i'm sure there are people out there that can accomodate this delicate snowflake
Nikki D 5 years ago
I dunno, in highschool it seemed like periods were no huge deal for most girls. To be fair, mine didn't get insanely intense until my 20s. Is that common?
Kitty 5 years ago
Mine was okay is school then most recent one nearly passed out in work through up and parcaetamol wasn't working so maybe ....
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Deja Serenity 5 years ago
what an idiot...I am happy I read al the comments basically saying what this air head needs to hear. When I trained in the army we did a ruck march for 10 miles and I sprained my ankle and the entire back of my heel peeled off. Period cramp pain can still be worse. When I was ten and I first started getting the cramps, we'd be in line for lunch and I was in so much pain I could not walk until it stopped. But I think women experience more pain than men, even while on their periods and getting cramps. Okay I'm done. You can keep your little knee sprain and go back to your planet clueless where you help your team lose while playing soccer.
This Lil Raccoon 5 years ago
My friend fell off her bike, skinned both knees/calves and her hands then ran a 200m and 400m sprint the next morning. I was tackled in rugby and dislocated my knee, was walking within the hour and went back to school and played rugby again the next day. I have also sprained my ankle over ten times and had whooping cough. Another friend has broken her arm three times. None of those injuries were as painful as the cramps we experience. Also I dislocated my knee again the other day, don't worry I'm fine.
Notsoswift 5 years ago
“I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry, I’m going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox And there’s one more—that’s seventeen, And don’t you think my face looks green?
Carney 5 years ago
Sure..ha, ha, ha. Funny? How about being kicked in the balls? That would make a good joke right?
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Brenda Nicholson 5 years ago
Does this dude honestly think that somehow women have never experienced a scraped knee? Even if this was a joke, women have been treated like jokes ever since forever. We don't find it funny.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
When he has to wrap a heating pad on high around his knees, miss school or work and overdose on heavy-duty pain pills once a month, we'll talk! He meows.
Norman van Druten 5 years ago (edited)
I watch my wife go through period pains on a regular basis, I feel so sorry for her and, wish there was something I could do to ease her suffering and yet, regrettably, I only understand the half of it so, period pains? No thanks, don't think I could handle that. I think I'll opt for the scrape on the knee.
Christine Cameron-Dow 5 years ago
Yes, yes, you poor baby, just spray a bit of local anaesthetic on your knees and they'll be all better. I can't do that to my uterus.
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
When I was 8 I skidded on my bike over loose gravel on the road. I was wearing shorts at the time and I skinned both my legs front and back and then had to walk home with my legs bleeding. A year later I picked up a cat to bring home because I wanted to show her to my cat loving sister. When the cat saw my dog in her bid to get away she clawed my face to ribbons just narrowingly missing my eyes. The absolute pain I experienced in those incidences pales in comparison to my period pain.
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Debbie Detmer 5 years ago
Yeah, buddy, just pass a kidney stone and you will know how excruciatingly painful childbirth and menstruation can be.
Katherine Cor 5 years ago
I cut my knees open once by sliding along ashfelt and I still have the scars, but my period pains are still worse.
Mark À Irvine 5 years ago
"This Twitter user received a HEAVY FLOW of backlash after he tweeted a comparison between period pain and a skinned knee" I LOL'ed over this!!
elfin 5 years ago
What on earth makes him think women don't experience skinned knees? Does he think our knees are made of stainless steel or something. Women experience skinned knees and cramps, so we have the right to judge. I will not presume to claim that skinned knees hurt more than kicked balls, though.
Kathryn Myrman 5 years ago (edited)
Honestly, I recently skinned my knees on concrete. I landed on my knees and scraped my knees so badly that I was dripping blood. I was shaking. I couldn't even walk. Sorry, but that was worse than any period pain I've ever had.
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Aurelia Grey 5 years ago
I can't wait until this delicate flower gets a paper cut. I'm guessing he'll equate that to giving birth to triplets.....
Up All Night 5 years ago
These kind of "whose pain is greater" competitions will end when we finally invent how to project feelings/pain/etc. from one brain to another. No one will say "Oh, your illness cannot be that bad", because the answer will be "Wanna try? We can hook up that neural connection for a day if you want." Can't wait.
Kim Lorton 5 years ago
He did not. Just say that, that?. Well, once a month, h needs hoooking up for seven days of cramp pain, experience the utter horror, that happens. When you stand up after sitting for an hour. And the unreal pain all day long. For 7 entire days. All day. All. The live long day!
Kitty 5 years ago
that moment when you have been sitting a while on your period then stand and the whoosh
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Yana Makarevitch 5 years ago (edited)
It was most likely a joke. Didn't everyone experience the pain of a scraped knee like in a kindergarten? And yeah, not all periods are painful. I'd prefer my period cramps over sore throat any day.
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rhyan lumilay 5 years ago
There is a birth giving simulator already right? to make one experience how painful giving birth is especially guys who whines that women talks too much about it, then came this another one about period, I know it's excruciating every month for girls to handle since I always experience it from my sister how she cries and loss appetite that all day she just wants to be alone and curls in the bed. Make a period simulator and test it to this guy.
blugeagua 5 years ago
For the people saying he was just trolling and we shouldn’t take it seriously. Well here’s the thing, he has MANY followers who actually agree with him and DON’T think he was joking, that’s the thing. There are people (mostly men of course) who truly do think like that. And that is NOT okay.
Stevie Aña McMahon 5 years ago
as i replied to the post: until you play whilst having period cramps, i don’t wanna hear about some scrape that women also experience.
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
He realizes we do know what a scraped knee feels like? Right? Hopefully?
April Simnel 5 years ago (edited)
When I was 11, I was skateboarding down a hill in a local park when a stick got caught under the front axle. I flew off and landed on the side of my right thigh after sliding down the hill on it for 25-30 feet. It took almost an hour to get the all the pebbles out of my flesh. I still have the mark and I'm almost 50. And yet, I've had cramps that have had me in bed for days. I imagine that migraines, bones breaking, being shot, or childbirth all feel a lot worse, though!
Lisa Leuschner Andersen 5 years ago
Yeah right! Women can’t hurt themselves like men can. ;)
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purplesparklesarethebest 5 years ago
for a man to feel the same level of pain, they would have to pull their s*****m over their head.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Such a comment by a man has been heard for eons and frustrates many women, including myself, it is outrageous , I have had multiple surgeries and ready to go home the day after, also I have broken bones twice, but period pain cripples me, but skinned knees, GOSH, I hope I never skin my knees !!!
Cheryl Ulmer 5 years ago
scraped knees [yea both of them at the same time ] are like being spanked with a feather compared to a period.... now THAT is like being spanked with a two by four ….for a week
thepotatogirl 5 years ago
I feel so bad for women whose periods are THAT painful, I got lucky and mine don't hurt that bad. This also made me think about if I'm ever gonna want kids, because childbirth sounds like hell, and I cried the first time I did a peel-off facemask :T
Kevin Nolan 5 years ago
How about a female athlete who scrapes her knee during her menstrual period? How many female players have been rushed off the playing field, taken by ambulance to a hospital or succumbed during this tragic catastrophe? Any?
Studio5301 5 years ago
I had a ton of deeply scraped knees from biking on asphalt and gravel. The pain is 1/10 of menstrual cramp pain. He's an idiot.
Abigail Hannah Williams 5 years ago
So,let's equate this to an equivalent male pain. Hmmm......let's see......Oh I've got it! It's like a knife getting stabbed through your d**k and balls and then it continuously getting kicked and twisted for an entire WEEK while at the slightest touch your boobs hurt as much as a guy getting kicked in the balls.I'm TWELVE and I started at 11 yrs old ELEVEN and I will be dealing with this for about 20-30 more years! And your complaining about a skinned knee! What a wimp!
Melinda Stanley 5 years ago
A big ol' f**k you to that guy. Sorry. It had to be said. I was a tom boy and have had plenty of skinned knees and broken other things as a child but nothing compared to being doubled over in pain for hours and vomiting. The degree varies from woman to woman but yeah, f**k that guy.
Monica Sargent 5 years ago
I got my first scraped knee at age 3. In high school, my period cramps (due to endometriosis) were so severe that the teachers would regularly assign someone to take me to the nurse's office 'before she faints again' because all the color had drained from my face (and in retrospect, was probably flowing from my body).
Debbie Andersson 5 years ago (edited)
Scraped knees aren't even the worst pain MEN can feel, what he even on about. Wuss. And like women never ever scrape their knees and they still say periods are worse.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
What a baby, I skinned my knees worse than that many times when I was a kid. I know which I'd prefer - skinned knees don't happen every month
Susan Denley 5 years ago
I had an inverted uterus. Period cramps were horrendous. I remember just putting my feet in a bucket of hot water and sobbing my eyes out. I later had a home birth and it was terrible and I had back labor. I was a gymnast for years when I was young and ended up becoming a full contact taekwondo instructor. I had broken and dislocated bones. I remember once dislocating a toe while fighting a match. I just reached down, pushed the toe back in and kept fighting. I also suffered a dislocated hip in a match. Many of these injuries occurred simultaneously while in the midst of my period with cramps. I just want to call that guy names. But my experience with men has been that most have very low pain tolerance as compared to any woman.
Anna Repp 5 years ago
When I was a teen, my menstrual pains were so bad I could not even move. And they came unexpectedly! I remember walking home from HS and about half way home it hit me so hard I could not walk anymore and had to lean on a building wall so I did not fall. Compare that to skinned knees!
Marnee DeRider 5 years ago
I used to get menstrual cramps (starting at age 14) that were worse than any pain I felt during childbirth and were accompanied by nausea and sometimes diarrhea. I feel that isn't entirely natural, but that's what happened. After having my first (and only) child, it was never that bad again, but there were still some doozies. I almost fainted a couple of times. As a teenager, I would go into the basement and find a dark corner away from everyone, and curl up. Ibuprofen is the best invention ever.
Marie Rousseaux 5 years ago
I know what it feels like... actually I knew what it fell like: still have the traces on my knees from playing in the playground when I was a kid. May I also point out that scraped knees caused by playing football is up to you to play or not ... Regarding periods, Nature has cursed and/or blessed women with them. No choice in the matter!
Bonita Ryan 5 years ago
I never understood why women were called "the Weaker Sex", maybe a couple of muscles, but we bear the kids, bear the abuse, get lower pay, and end up raising those kids, usually without much help from the father.
Jack Lantern 4 years ago
They get lower pay because they work less. They're the weaker sex because they're emotionally fragile wrecks
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Janie Walker 5 years ago
May you have the none pain of passing a kidney stone. Then you may almost know what menstrual pain is like.
Carolyn Simon 5 years ago
And even if we could somehow replicate the physical pain for men to "experience" we would probably never be able to add that mental and emotional pain that goes along with it...
Lisa 5 years ago
Wow why reply to this pathetic stAtement, it is designed to offend and outrage females into defending and responding about a female body function that is part of nature. Yourjust giving him a big head because he is trending or todays most popular subject. Women should not lfeel the need to sink to mens low level of insults that are written and comment about these sad subjects.
Karen Naylor 5 years ago (edited)
WHAT I SAID WAS THIS MAN SHOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT A WOMAN'S PERIOD UNTIL HE HAS HAD ONE. I HAVE HAD A SCREW HOOK ALMOST PULL MY LEFT EYE OUT. FALLEN ON A WOOD STOVE SO HOT MY SKIN MELTED TO THE STOVE. A RAILROAD SPIKE THROUGH MY LEG. SCRAPED KNEES WORSE THAN THE PICTURES SHOWN. AN OVARY BURST. A BURST APPENDAGE WHILE CARRYING MY DAUGHTER INSIDE ME. A SHATTERED BACK WHEN I WAS THROWN INTO A MORE THAN 75 FOOT RAVINE. WELDING BURN TO MY EYES. I KNOW PAIN. A PERIOD IS JUST AS BAD AS SCRAPED KNEES AND THEY COME MONTHY FOR A HELL OF A LOT OF YEARS.
Lisa Leuschner Andersen 5 years ago
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Danin Larksy 5 years ago
A man who thinks he is funny with a clearly deliberate taunt then gets funny women trying to prove how wrong he is. I am hoping the replies are all in good humour and there isn't a deliberate attempt to try and prove women have it worse. That would be crass and ridiculous if it was the case. I think skinned knees hurt like hell. Especially if you accidentally let them dry out and bend too quickly. I also believe seeing these types of posts are very popular with online viewers is painful and grating.
Stephanie Bladyak 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure it was a joke, if not that guy is really stupid. I'm another note I've read that women naturally have s higher threshold for pain...we kinda have to.
Magic567 5 years ago (edited)
I was doing a 17km run for cancer and I broke my arm halfway, I wouldn't let anyone get the medics because the deal was if I finished the race 2000 dollars would be donated to cancer, research and better care for those with cancer finished in pain but hope and you could see the bone coming through my arm. I didn't want more people to die the same way my nana did- so if this bloke thinks that a lil scratch on a knee is painful I would like to tell him what pain truly is
Magic567 5 years ago
hey people who are downvoting me for raising money for a good cause do u want to actually say something to me other than hiding behind your device
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Han 5 years ago
I am always wondering about the algorithms running behind most articles on the entire web. I watched a recent documentary where several IT people talked about Google and the one million servers running it. How we don't really think about how Google can finish our sentences in the search bar. How soon it will be running on one hundred million servers. One guy said "AI gives us data we wouldn't otherwise have access to as a result of it's capabilities. The payoff for AI is the data we provide with every tap of the keyboard. They mentioned articles like this one provides AI with emotional data about human existence. That AI has already surpassed us and has an agenda. This site is owned by Facebook. It's harvesting our data constantly. Anyways ... I submit to our robot overlords. :)
PandaLover 5 years ago
Seriously? How does HE know scraped knees are worse than period pains? Has he had a period before??? Geez. I'm sure many women would MUCH rather have scraped knees than period pains.
Captain Awesome 5 years ago
Harden up peckerhead! You're an embarrassment to real men everywhere!
TigerDRena 5 years ago
Yes, skinned knees burn, but at least to me it's not even close to the insane headaches which feel as if my head is about to expload or period cramps that feel like someone is stabbing me multiple times with a little knife that I've been experiencing. Then again everyone experiences pain differently.
Just saying 5 years ago
Maybe he could try tensing his leg muscles til they push the skin of his knee - that would be a closer analogy.
Stevie Avebury 5 years ago
As a teenager I wrecked on my bike and broke out my two front teeth. Along with a horrible road rash on my face. I had two emergency root canals that night. I've broken 4 bones, went through natural childbirth, went through bootcamp.. Tell me again about this skinned knee.
Stevie Aña McMahon 5 years ago
as i said in my reply to the tweet: until you play whilst on your period, i don’t wanna hear about some scrape that women also experience.
Navy Girl 5 years ago
Most of us have had scrapes like that, on the knee or other joint or face.... although I don't really complain about boo boos like that or period pains. Now if she was talking about kidney stones, I would be more likely to agree with her.
Lisa Chambers 5 years ago
He skins his knees, something I did as a small child, and the first thing he thinks to do is tweet about how the pain Is incomparable to a woman's period pain? WTF is wrong with this guy?
Xoxo 5 years ago
To clarify, this article was NOT written by a man. This was a boy with no life experience.
Phoebes 5 years ago
LMBO--I'm afraid this "boy" just got some REAL life experience in the form of blowback from crazy comments! xD
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I've had a broken kneecap. I've had periods. The worse pain periods. Natch. Nocontest. So I hope the OP was joking. ll
SupernaturalPanda 2 years ago
This poor child...cause that is what he is ..a child. I can literally feel the stupid coming from him and his posts. I pray for any woman in his life.
Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago
Hmmm interesting. I have done that before, so I’ll complain thank you very much!
Jade Lynn - Panda's Brat 3 years ago
I seriously hope this man never EVER breeds. If you cannot feel a sense of empathy towards women and what they go through you do not deserve to touch one at all. I've skinned my knees, broken toes, had infected wisdom teeth, and then had them removed and etc. Period pain, along with symptoms of PCOS are worse than those things. Skinning your knees while playing a game is something you decided to do. I don't decide when my body wants to shed it's lining. This guy is such an idiot.
Christopher CH 4 years ago
Really one thing that drives me ladies nippick given birth all the time for well knowing a man cannot give birth. you can't complain about something to men when men won't feel it. and you are never required to have a child in first place. so there that. Secondly i read on another site periods aren't suppose to hurt however with hormons or other body parts might make it worst. Women most not all ususally don't have high torlence of pain like men do. one my lady friends will brusie way to easily. I personally think as guy i don't have high level torlence of pain. But my brother tells me otherwise i do. Its ingorant tweet. but you can't complain about pain to the oppiste sex when they never will feel or understand it.
Abbie Parry 5 years ago
I have hypermobility syndrome, a condition that makes my ligaments abnormally lax. I have daily joint dislocations, and still manage to go about my day. And yet, period cramps can leave me unable to function, not just from the pain, but from the nausea as well. For men that want to know what period cramps feel like, imagine a time you had a vomiting bug, combined with the pain of a bad knee dislocation, except in your abdomen and lower back. Then tell us that skinned knees are worse.
Jude 5 years ago
I had fibroids embedded in the muscle wall of my uterus, a large blood-filled cyst on one ovary and adhesions throughout my abdomen (endometriosis), essentially gluing my organs, intestines and bladder into one mass, as the surgeon told me. I also have passed polyps that looked like small balloons with roots. When I finally got a hysterectomy, I was never so happy to get rid of the part of my body that tortured me 5 days every month. Yeah, scraped knees - ooh, the pain!
Kimberly Irving 5 years ago
Can someone please punch this guy in the gut & lower back multiple times a day for say, oh I don't know, 5 days or so? Oh! And don't forget the pounding headaches, hot flashes, and nipples that feel like someone is trying to slowly pierce them with a dull needle....but hey! I'm sure those skinned knees suck a lot...... : |
Shelley Jelly Belly 5 years ago
I agree. Scraped knees are more painful because I don't get period pains.
don't scam bored panda 5 years ago
I've scraped my knees so many times, you get up, put a band-aid on it, and the pain goes away. Now periods are not like that at all. Try dealing with that once a month until your like, 50 or something like that.
Wonder Gal 5 years ago
I've always wondered. Do men experience nature strains? (In relation to our labor and period pain) do you have sperm pain? Just curious.
Poly Amorous 2 years ago
They do have monthly hormonal changes, much like women, but in a generally lesser degree, and without the whole... everything else. (As far as I'm aware)
Load More Replies... Mae 5 years ago
LOL I'm not sure if the guy is joking or not. If he's not it's like wtf do you think women never get their knees scraped. I played football for 8 years, now my knees are so ugly that it's not a pretty sight whenever I decide to wear short pants/skirts lol. Also, rug burns 😂😅 But still how you compare a knee to a uterus is beyond me lol.
Roxy Eastland 5 years ago
My irritation goes in two directions. Firstly, that this guy thinks women don't scrape their knees. I genuinely can't fathom how his brain got there. But secondly, women, why are so many of us keen to sell menstruation as this incapacitating experience that takes women out of commission and renders them unable to function for at least a fifth of the time? Do they think that helps engender equality? Yes, because our bodies are designed to grow and feed babies our bodies are more complicated, take more management, and have more ways to cause us woe. But I can't see it helps to feed the notion that we're extremely badly designed and barely manage to stagger on month to month.
Greta Hoostal 5 years ago
I think it depends on the woman. Some have it worse than others. I don’t have it bad at all, just occasionally pain that makes me want to sit motionless for an hr & distract myself. OTC med. usu. doesn’t help me at all. B/c opiates are what consistently work on me, if it were bad for me, I’d be in trouble! But maybe everybody has something bad sooner or later, e.g. I’ve had chronic mono for 12 yrs. It’s not just CFS as some people say. Beyond fatigue, it causes chills, night-sweats, chilblains (incl. under the nails), chronic other infections (incl. yeast infections w/ open wounds), & aching lymph-nodes, scalp ones sometimes having pressure erupting into open, weeping, itching, hurting sores which some people have told me they think are actually shingles. 😬 I couldn’t work at a job anymore: things are worse from the least stress, & otherwise come on at random & might last for months. But I believe the women who say their periods are torture. I wouldn’t trade the mono for them. 😄
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Anand Nainar 5 years ago
Ridiculous comment. Bruised knee usually comes together on period days. Women have them both. Start respecting women.
Living_Shadow 5 years ago
I agree with a couple people down there in the comments that I think this guy was joking. But ofc, everyone makes a big deal out of it. Everyone's so sensitive these days calm down. But honestly, if this guy was for real, which I doubt, period pains are HELL. On my worst days, I'd describe them as feeling like a rolled up ball of molten lava in your gut with sharp objects poking out, tearing and burning the area where it is constantly with NO relief. Lying down doesn't help, sitting, or standing. Nothing. No escaping it, you just gotta suffer. I've nearly passed out twice and it's made me cry. Hot water bottles are supposed to help so one time I let the bottle burn my skin because I wanted to drown out the cramping pain with the sharp pain of my skin burning. That's how bad it got.
Hamish Mckenzie 5 years ago
Jesus obviously he's joking "oh he's mansplaining" like broo we all know period pains are s**t like the dude is making a joke and y'all jumped on him
Susi Schnabel 5 years ago
First of all I understand why most of the people are upset about his tweets. I am a woman myself and period cramps are not fun at all but I'm wondering why is it necessary to show a photo of this man? Seems like he has committed a crime and needs to be warned of. Isn't that a little too much? When a funny or stupid Facebook post of a person is shared on here, the tiny profile pictures aren't even shown. Again, I agree this man doesn't know what he's talking about and should shut up but why do you feel the need to show a photograph of him and make him look like a criminal. Stupidity on this level is not criminal I believe.
Lisa Leuschner Andersen 5 years ago
He’s a troll and getting exactly what he wanted.
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Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
This guy is obviously either joking or r******d, this whole thing should have stopped after WOMEN CAN ALSO SKIN THEIR KNEES U MORON.
Moo Moo Futch 5 years ago
My new favourite things of 2019, reading comments and meme replies to stupid anti-vax mothers clucking about some preventable s**t and men talking about periods like they know what it feels like to have a dyson vacuum up the snatcheroo once a month having your guts sucked out along with the unbearable pain of stomach cramps, a*s hole cramp, lower back pain, ultra painful titties, bank breaking period protection and a murderous urge for chocolate, Netflix a duvet and ibuprofen.
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
"dyson vacuum up the snatcheroo once a month" may be my newest favourite expression
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Roy Spaan 5 years ago
If this is an honest post: it's dumb. if it's a joke or whatever, it's still dumb. people are right in wanting to rip him a new one. I don't quite fully agree with the "no uterus, no opinion" mentality though. Everybody is entitled to an opinion on the matter, as long as it's with some f*****g brains. Though obviously men can't know exactly what it feels like. Someone mentioned some test where men COULD feel it. I'd be interested in experiencing that before being able to make any real comments. I'd like to end on: Why do both men and women keep feeling the need to compare eachothers suffering? (Aside from jokers like "I skinned my knee") It's not a contest. No one 'wins' here. Nor is either side exempt from feeling pain or voicing it simply because the other side has it worse.
Patrick McKenna 5 years ago
There was a time when both sexes could be joked about and lampooned...now it's all a one way street, or they label you a misogynist.
Rachel Booker 5 years ago
Forget about menstruation simulators. Let's just randomly walk up to guys once a month and start punching them in the gut...throw in a few rabbit punches to the low back, just to keep it interesting.
Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago
But I have hurt both my knees like that! I fell and cut one knee completely open, about 10 cm wide, with skin tissue bubbling out and blood pouring out and down my leg in to my shoe. Which I had to throw away because it got too fkn drenched in blood. That was nothing in comparison to cramps so STFU. Any man who keeps taking about uteruses should just get a punch in the groin.
Alia G. 5 years ago
God, sorry you got downvoted so much. Seems a lot of guys want to believe they unconditionally suffer more than women.
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Lizzie Roth 5 years ago
joke or not, you have to expect that most women are going to take it seriously.
Michelle Dodson 5 years ago
Oh, you's got a widdle boo boo? Trying giving birth with no epidural, you candy a*s little pussy!
Kitty 5 years ago
I think it depends on the women some people get worse cramps that others some periods are worse than others and it is hard to compare I can get really bad ones but others are fine
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deathrose 5 years ago
Once, my husband experienced testicular torsion (twisting of the sperm tubes) from a groin sprain from trying to keep up with me on the line of a restaurant we worked at. When we got to the hospital and got everything sorted out the doctor jokingly told him he has now experienced the pain of period cramping. My husband looked at me all wide-eyed and just said "Seriously!? Omg I'm sooo sorry." All i could do was laugh along side the doctor.
Anna Constantinou 5 years ago
I would have thought testicular torsion pain would be similar to ovarian torsion pain, which can be even worse than dysmenorrhea (painful periods/killer cramps). Not all periods are as painful as that, only 10% of them.
Load More Replies... Neferpitou 5 years ago
Honestly is sounds like the guy was just joking and people are taking him too seriously.
JessG 5 years ago
I think it was a joke too. I mean, that really was a stupid tweet if not
Load More Replies... Parmeisan 5 years ago
Right?! That's the most important point here but nobody seems to be saying it: Does he seriously believe that women *haven't* experienced that?
Load More Replies... Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Men and women both get cluster headaches and they have been described many times as "one of the worst pains a person can experience" and are said by female sufferers to be worse than childbirth. This man is being a wuss, yes, but cluster headaches have beaten broken bones, grazed-off skin, burns, nerve pain, endometriosis, operations on various parts of me... I'll probably get accused of going 'off point' by some pedant but here is a pain which is generally considered to be the worst and men get them too. There is pain that 'levels the playing field'.
Heather Dangerfield 5 years ago
Can confirm. Get cluster headaches weekly. They have been known to cause suicides and injury as people go to extreme measures to escape them.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 5 years ago
What in God's name makes this guy think women don't get scrapped knees. Cause if women's knees don't get scrapped, nobody told my knees about it.
Saskia Alexandra 5 years ago
Especially as the picture on the right is actually of a woman's knees...
Load More Replies... Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago
Why does the introductory post have to include "(cis) men"? Is it just trying to be inflammatory?
Karen Elizabeth 5 years ago
Because many trans men still have periods and experience the cramps that go along with them, or did experience them before undergoing surgery and can remember them and sympathize appropriately. If you just say "men don't experience this" you are erasing the experience of the men who *have* experienced it because they were born with a uterus to shed the lining of.
Load More Replies... TwiceRice23 5 years ago (edited)
It's pretty safe to say most women DO know what a scraped knee feels like. Women were all kids. Women play sports. Reminder: women are HUMAN.
Schrödinger's Dog 5 years ago
Oh nooo....the big tough athlete scraped his knee. Does he need a Band-Aid?
Phoebes 5 years ago
Right?!? I like most of the stories, but LOVE the crazy comments!!
Load More Replies... CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I mean, I get cramps, but if ya'll are passing our from your cramps you need to see a doctor pronto.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Why? So he can tell me it's all in my head again? I didn't get help until I went on birth control for 3 years. Which is why I went on birth control to begin with. My doctor didn't prescribe it; I went to the local Planned Parenthood offices and talked to a doctor there.
Load More Replies... Deborah B 5 years ago
WTF? Is a skinned knee the worst pain this twit has ever suffered? I mean yeah, it stings a little. Then you slap some germolene on it and keep playing. I'm lucky enough to have pretty easy periods, and they still hurt a lot worse than freaking turf burn.
diane a 5 years ago (edited)
Actually I will admit a badly scraped knee can be extremely painful. I once tripped going up stairs with a very rough sisal/coir carpet. Took a chunk out of my knee leaving exposed nerves. It was about the size of a 10p but even being exposed to air hurt.So deep I had to get medical attention because of the pain and it took a couple of weeks to heal over. But that was ONCE. Periods are every month for around 50% of your life.
Load More Replies... diane a 5 years ago
I agree with the original comment that the photo does not look like an adult footballer's knee - more like a woman. Hairless pale and softer. I wonder how smal his ACTUAL scrape was? I used to have horrendous pain that laid me up for a couple of days most months as well as dysmenorrhea. I would gladly have swapped ONE period for a scraped knee, the pain would be less and would be gone in the same length of time.
Captain Planet 5 years ago
OMG and ANOTHER shutdown post. You feel connected with your fellow men/women? No worries. Boredpanda is here to break you up, polarisation is the new marketing strategy. Creating hate = discussion = website engagement and clicks.
Up All Night 5 years ago
Chill, this is not a Men vs Women post, just the "Dumbass of the Week" post. Everyone likes those.
Load More Replies... Lizzie the Crayon 5 years ago
At least you can put a band aid and neosporn on your knee to make the bleeding stop...
Mads Sly 5 years ago
Apparently scraped knees cause pelvic dislocation, internal muscle spasms, the expulsion of congealed blood and rotting tissue(with a possibility of Toxic Shock under certain circumstances), massive hormone storm, possible diarrhoea, and internal anxiety and humiliation over having to go about daily life as if nothing is different. For anywhere between 3-7(sometimes more). Roughly every month. For decades.
Oh, you scraped a few layers of skin off your knee? And will be given dressings and painkillers and sympathy from everyone? And it will heal over in about a month? notsurpris...754c46.jpg
Cassie 5 years ago
Turf burn to the knees? I took a pavement burn to my face flying over the handlebars of a bike when the rear brake failed and only the front brake worked and I took a pavement burn to the knees falling off my skateboard when some douche bag hit the back of my board with the front tire of his bike. This guy thinks females can't get skinned knees? Seriously? Does he think we can only fall daintily onto pillows or something?
Cindy Snow 5 years ago
Uh, women get periods and scraped knees... It's also not a contest. People all experience pain uniquely so don't tell any woman( or man) how little you think their pain counts especially when you don't have said body part.
Gary Burley 5 years ago
i went back to work one day later, after having avoided a heart attack by having an artery scraped by a wire. if poor baby wants his dummy placed back in his pram i'm sure there are people out there that can accomodate this delicate snowflake
Nikki D 5 years ago
I dunno, in highschool it seemed like periods were no huge deal for most girls. To be fair, mine didn't get insanely intense until my 20s. Is that common?
Kitty 5 years ago
Mine was okay is school then most recent one nearly passed out in work through up and parcaetamol wasn't working so maybe ....
Load More Replies... Deja Serenity 5 years ago
what an idiot...I am happy I read al the comments basically saying what this air head needs to hear. When I trained in the army we did a ruck march for 10 miles and I sprained my ankle and the entire back of my heel peeled off. Period cramp pain can still be worse. When I was ten and I first started getting the cramps, we'd be in line for lunch and I was in so much pain I could not walk until it stopped. But I think women experience more pain than men, even while on their periods and getting cramps. Okay I'm done. You can keep your little knee sprain and go back to your planet clueless where you help your team lose while playing soccer.
This Lil Raccoon 5 years ago
My friend fell off her bike, skinned both knees/calves and her hands then ran a 200m and 400m sprint the next morning. I was tackled in rugby and dislocated my knee, was walking within the hour and went back to school and played rugby again the next day. I have also sprained my ankle over ten times and had whooping cough. Another friend has broken her arm three times. None of those injuries were as painful as the cramps we experience. Also I dislocated my knee again the other day, don't worry I'm fine.
Notsoswift 5 years ago
“I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry, I’m going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox And there’s one more—that’s seventeen, And don’t you think my face looks green?
Carney 5 years ago
Sure..ha, ha, ha. Funny? How about being kicked in the balls? That would make a good joke right?
Load More Replies... Brenda Nicholson 5 years ago
Does this dude honestly think that somehow women have never experienced a scraped knee? Even if this was a joke, women have been treated like jokes ever since forever. We don't find it funny.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
When he has to wrap a heating pad on high around his knees, miss school or work and overdose on heavy-duty pain pills once a month, we'll talk! He meows.
Norman van Druten 5 years ago (edited)
I watch my wife go through period pains on a regular basis, I feel so sorry for her and, wish there was something I could do to ease her suffering and yet, regrettably, I only understand the half of it so, period pains? No thanks, don't think I could handle that. I think I'll opt for the scrape on the knee.
Christine Cameron-Dow 5 years ago
Yes, yes, you poor baby, just spray a bit of local anaesthetic on your knees and they'll be all better. I can't do that to my uterus.
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
When I was 8 I skidded on my bike over loose gravel on the road. I was wearing shorts at the time and I skinned both my legs front and back and then had to walk home with my legs bleeding. A year later I picked up a cat to bring home because I wanted to show her to my cat loving sister. When the cat saw my dog in her bid to get away she clawed my face to ribbons just narrowingly missing my eyes. The absolute pain I experienced in those incidences pales in comparison to my period pain.
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Load More Replies... Debbie Detmer 5 years ago
Yeah, buddy, just pass a kidney stone and you will know how excruciatingly painful childbirth and menstruation can be.
Katherine Cor 5 years ago
I cut my knees open once by sliding along ashfelt and I still have the scars, but my period pains are still worse.
Mark À Irvine 5 years ago
"This Twitter user received a HEAVY FLOW of backlash after he tweeted a comparison between period pain and a skinned knee" I LOL'ed over this!!
elfin 5 years ago
What on earth makes him think women don't experience skinned knees? Does he think our knees are made of stainless steel or something. Women experience skinned knees and cramps, so we have the right to judge. I will not presume to claim that skinned knees hurt more than kicked balls, though.
Kathryn Myrman 5 years ago (edited)
Honestly, I recently skinned my knees on concrete. I landed on my knees and scraped my knees so badly that I was dripping blood. I was shaking. I couldn't even walk. Sorry, but that was worse than any period pain I've ever had.
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Load More Replies... Aurelia Grey 5 years ago
I can't wait until this delicate flower gets a paper cut. I'm guessing he'll equate that to giving birth to triplets.....
Up All Night 5 years ago
These kind of "whose pain is greater" competitions will end when we finally invent how to project feelings/pain/etc. from one brain to another. No one will say "Oh, your illness cannot be that bad", because the answer will be "Wanna try? We can hook up that neural connection for a day if you want." Can't wait.
Kim Lorton 5 years ago
He did not. Just say that, that?. Well, once a month, h needs hoooking up for seven days of cramp pain, experience the utter horror, that happens. When you stand up after sitting for an hour. And the unreal pain all day long. For 7 entire days. All day. All. The live long day!
Kitty 5 years ago
that moment when you have been sitting a while on your period then stand and the whoosh
Load More Replies... Yana Makarevitch 5 years ago (edited)
It was most likely a joke. Didn't everyone experience the pain of a scraped knee like in a kindergarten? And yeah, not all periods are painful. I'd prefer my period cramps over sore throat any day.
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Load More Replies... rhyan lumilay 5 years ago
There is a birth giving simulator already right? to make one experience how painful giving birth is especially guys who whines that women talks too much about it, then came this another one about period, I know it's excruciating every month for girls to handle since I always experience it from my sister how she cries and loss appetite that all day she just wants to be alone and curls in the bed. Make a period simulator and test it to this guy.
blugeagua 5 years ago
For the people saying he was just trolling and we shouldn’t take it seriously. Well here’s the thing, he has MANY followers who actually agree with him and DON’T think he was joking, that’s the thing. There are people (mostly men of course) who truly do think like that. And that is NOT okay.
Stevie Aña McMahon 5 years ago
as i replied to the post: until you play whilst having period cramps, i don’t wanna hear about some scrape that women also experience.
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
He realizes we do know what a scraped knee feels like? Right? Hopefully?
April Simnel 5 years ago (edited)
When I was 11, I was skateboarding down a hill in a local park when a stick got caught under the front axle. I flew off and landed on the side of my right thigh after sliding down the hill on it for 25-30 feet. It took almost an hour to get the all the pebbles out of my flesh. I still have the mark and I'm almost 50. And yet, I've had cramps that have had me in bed for days. I imagine that migraines, bones breaking, being shot, or childbirth all feel a lot worse, though!
Lisa Leuschner Andersen 5 years ago
Yeah right! Women can’t hurt themselves like men can. ;)
Load More Replies... purplesparklesarethebest 5 years ago
for a man to feel the same level of pain, they would have to pull their s*****m over their head.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Such a comment by a man has been heard for eons and frustrates many women, including myself, it is outrageous , I have had multiple surgeries and ready to go home the day after, also I have broken bones twice, but period pain cripples me, but skinned knees, GOSH, I hope I never skin my knees !!!
Cheryl Ulmer 5 years ago
scraped knees [yea both of them at the same time ] are like being spanked with a feather compared to a period.... now THAT is like being spanked with a two by four ….for a week
thepotatogirl 5 years ago
I feel so bad for women whose periods are THAT painful, I got lucky and mine don't hurt that bad. This also made me think about if I'm ever gonna want kids, because childbirth sounds like hell, and I cried the first time I did a peel-off facemask :T
Kevin Nolan 5 years ago
How about a female athlete who scrapes her knee during her menstrual period? How many female players have been rushed off the playing field, taken by ambulance to a hospital or succumbed during this tragic catastrophe? Any?
Studio5301 5 years ago
I had a ton of deeply scraped knees from biking on asphalt and gravel. The pain is 1/10 of menstrual cramp pain. He's an idiot.
Abigail Hannah Williams 5 years ago
So,let's equate this to an equivalent male pain. Hmmm......let's see......Oh I've got it! It's like a knife getting stabbed through your d**k and balls and then it continuously getting kicked and twisted for an entire WEEK while at the slightest touch your boobs hurt as much as a guy getting kicked in the balls.I'm TWELVE and I started at 11 yrs old ELEVEN and I will be dealing with this for about 20-30 more years! And your complaining about a skinned knee! What a wimp!
Melinda Stanley 5 years ago
A big ol' f**k you to that guy. Sorry. It had to be said. I was a tom boy and have had plenty of skinned knees and broken other things as a child but nothing compared to being doubled over in pain for hours and vomiting. The degree varies from woman to woman but yeah, f**k that guy.
Monica Sargent 5 years ago
I got my first scraped knee at age 3. In high school, my period cramps (due to endometriosis) were so severe that the teachers would regularly assign someone to take me to the nurse's office 'before she faints again' because all the color had drained from my face (and in retrospect, was probably flowing from my body).
Debbie Andersson 5 years ago (edited)
Scraped knees aren't even the worst pain MEN can feel, what he even on about. Wuss. And like women never ever scrape their knees and they still say periods are worse.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
What a baby, I skinned my knees worse than that many times when I was a kid. I know which I'd prefer - skinned knees don't happen every month
Susan Denley 5 years ago
I had an inverted uterus. Period cramps were horrendous. I remember just putting my feet in a bucket of hot water and sobbing my eyes out. I later had a home birth and it was terrible and I had back labor. I was a gymnast for years when I was young and ended up becoming a full contact taekwondo instructor. I had broken and dislocated bones. I remember once dislocating a toe while fighting a match. I just reached down, pushed the toe back in and kept fighting. I also suffered a dislocated hip in a match. Many of these injuries occurred simultaneously while in the midst of my period with cramps. I just want to call that guy names. But my experience with men has been that most have very low pain tolerance as compared to any woman.
Anna Repp 5 years ago
When I was a teen, my menstrual pains were so bad I could not even move. And they came unexpectedly! I remember walking home from HS and about half way home it hit me so hard I could not walk anymore and had to lean on a building wall so I did not fall. Compare that to skinned knees!
Marnee DeRider 5 years ago
I used to get menstrual cramps (starting at age 14) that were worse than any pain I felt during childbirth and were accompanied by nausea and sometimes diarrhea. I feel that isn't entirely natural, but that's what happened. After having my first (and only) child, it was never that bad again, but there were still some doozies. I almost fainted a couple of times. As a teenager, I would go into the basement and find a dark corner away from everyone, and curl up. Ibuprofen is the best invention ever.
Marie Rousseaux 5 years ago
I know what it feels like... actually I knew what it fell like: still have the traces on my knees from playing in the playground when I was a kid. May I also point out that scraped knees caused by playing football is up to you to play or not ... Regarding periods, Nature has cursed and/or blessed women with them. No choice in the matter!
Bonita Ryan 5 years ago
I never understood why women were called "the Weaker Sex", maybe a couple of muscles, but we bear the kids, bear the abuse, get lower pay, and end up raising those kids, usually without much help from the father.
Jack Lantern 4 years ago
They get lower pay because they work less. They're the weaker sex because they're emotionally fragile wrecks
Load More Replies... Janie Walker 5 years ago
May you have the none pain of passing a kidney stone. Then you may almost know what menstrual pain is like.
Carolyn Simon 5 years ago
And even if we could somehow replicate the physical pain for men to "experience" we would probably never be able to add that mental and emotional pain that goes along with it...
Lisa 5 years ago
Wow why reply to this pathetic stAtement, it is designed to offend and outrage females into defending and responding about a female body function that is part of nature. Yourjust giving him a big head because he is trending or todays most popular subject. Women should not lfeel the need to sink to mens low level of insults that are written and comment about these sad subjects.
Karen Naylor 5 years ago (edited)
WHAT I SAID WAS THIS MAN SHOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT A WOMAN'S PERIOD UNTIL HE HAS HAD ONE. I HAVE HAD A SCREW HOOK ALMOST PULL MY LEFT EYE OUT. FALLEN ON A WOOD STOVE SO HOT MY SKIN MELTED TO THE STOVE. A RAILROAD SPIKE THROUGH MY LEG. SCRAPED KNEES WORSE THAN THE PICTURES SHOWN. AN OVARY BURST. A BURST APPENDAGE WHILE CARRYING MY DAUGHTER INSIDE ME. A SHATTERED BACK WHEN I WAS THROWN INTO A MORE THAN 75 FOOT RAVINE. WELDING BURN TO MY EYES. I KNOW PAIN. A PERIOD IS JUST AS BAD AS SCRAPED KNEES AND THEY COME MONTHY FOR A HELL OF A LOT OF YEARS.
Lisa Leuschner Andersen 5 years ago
Congratulations, you win! Tell her what she’s won!!
Load More Replies... Danin Larksy 5 years ago
A man who thinks he is funny with a clearly deliberate taunt then gets funny women trying to prove how wrong he is. I am hoping the replies are all in good humour and there isn't a deliberate attempt to try and prove women have it worse. That would be crass and ridiculous if it was the case. I think skinned knees hurt like hell. Especially if you accidentally let them dry out and bend too quickly. I also believe seeing these types of posts are very popular with online viewers is painful and grating.
Stephanie Bladyak 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure it was a joke, if not that guy is really stupid. I'm another note I've read that women naturally have s higher threshold for pain...we kinda have to.
Magic567 5 years ago (edited)
I was doing a 17km run for cancer and I broke my arm halfway, I wouldn't let anyone get the medics because the deal was if I finished the race 2000 dollars would be donated to cancer, research and better care for those with cancer finished in pain but hope and you could see the bone coming through my arm. I didn't want more people to die the same way my nana did- so if this bloke thinks that a lil scratch on a knee is painful I would like to tell him what pain truly is
Magic567 5 years ago
hey people who are downvoting me for raising money for a good cause do u want to actually say something to me other than hiding behind your device
Load More Replies... Han 5 years ago
I am always wondering about the algorithms running behind most articles on the entire web. I watched a recent documentary where several IT people talked about Google and the one million servers running it. How we don't really think about how Google can finish our sentences in the search bar. How soon it will be running on one hundred million servers. One guy said "AI gives us data we wouldn't otherwise have access to as a result of it's capabilities. The payoff for AI is the data we provide with every tap of the keyboard. They mentioned articles like this one provides AI with emotional data about human existence. That AI has already surpassed us and has an agenda. This site is owned by Facebook. It's harvesting our data constantly. Anyways ... I submit to our robot overlords. :)
PandaLover 5 years ago
Seriously? How does HE know scraped knees are worse than period pains? Has he had a period before??? Geez. I'm sure many women would MUCH rather have scraped knees than period pains.
Captain Awesome 5 years ago
Harden up peckerhead! You're an embarrassment to real men everywhere!
TigerDRena 5 years ago
Yes, skinned knees burn, but at least to me it's not even close to the insane headaches which feel as if my head is about to expload or period cramps that feel like someone is stabbing me multiple times with a little knife that I've been experiencing. Then again everyone experiences pain differently.
Just saying 5 years ago
Maybe he could try tensing his leg muscles til they push the skin of his knee - that would be a closer analogy.
Stevie Avebury 5 years ago
As a teenager I wrecked on my bike and broke out my two front teeth. Along with a horrible road rash on my face. I had two emergency root canals that night. I've broken 4 bones, went through natural childbirth, went through bootcamp.. Tell me again about this skinned knee.
Stevie Aña McMahon 5 years ago
as i said in my reply to the tweet: until you play whilst on your period, i don’t wanna hear about some scrape that women also experience.
Navy Girl 5 years ago
Most of us have had scrapes like that, on the knee or other joint or face.... although I don't really complain about boo boos like that or period pains. Now if she was talking about kidney stones, I would be more likely to agree with her.
Lisa Chambers 5 years ago
He skins his knees, something I did as a small child, and the first thing he thinks to do is tweet about how the pain Is incomparable to a woman's period pain? WTF is wrong with this guy?
Xoxo 5 years ago
To clarify, this article was NOT written by a man. This was a boy with no life experience.
Phoebes 5 years ago
LMBO--I'm afraid this "boy" just got some REAL life experience in the form of blowback from crazy comments! xD
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I've had a broken kneecap. I've had periods. The worse pain periods. Natch. Nocontest. So I hope the OP was joking. ll
SupernaturalPanda 2 years ago
This poor child...cause that is what he is ..a child. I can literally feel the stupid coming from him and his posts. I pray for any woman in his life.
Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago
Hmmm interesting. I have done that before, so I’ll complain thank you very much!
Jade Lynn - Panda's Brat 3 years ago
I seriously hope this man never EVER breeds. If you cannot feel a sense of empathy towards women and what they go through you do not deserve to touch one at all. I've skinned my knees, broken toes, had infected wisdom teeth, and then had them removed and etc. Period pain, along with symptoms of PCOS are worse than those things. Skinning your knees while playing a game is something you decided to do. I don't decide when my body wants to shed it's lining. This guy is such an idiot.
Christopher CH 4 years ago
Really one thing that drives me ladies nippick given birth all the time for well knowing a man cannot give birth. you can't complain about something to men when men won't feel it. and you are never required to have a child in first place. so there that. Secondly i read on another site periods aren't suppose to hurt however with hormons or other body parts might make it worst. Women most not all ususally don't have high torlence of pain like men do. one my lady friends will brusie way to easily. I personally think as guy i don't have high level torlence of pain. But my brother tells me otherwise i do. Its ingorant tweet. but you can't complain about pain to the oppiste sex when they never will feel or understand it.
Abbie Parry 5 years ago
I have hypermobility syndrome, a condition that makes my ligaments abnormally lax. I have daily joint dislocations, and still manage to go about my day. And yet, period cramps can leave me unable to function, not just from the pain, but from the nausea as well. For men that want to know what period cramps feel like, imagine a time you had a vomiting bug, combined with the pain of a bad knee dislocation, except in your abdomen and lower back. Then tell us that skinned knees are worse.
Jude 5 years ago
I had fibroids embedded in the muscle wall of my uterus, a large blood-filled cyst on one ovary and adhesions throughout my abdomen (endometriosis), essentially gluing my organs, intestines and bladder into one mass, as the surgeon told me. I also have passed polyps that looked like small balloons with roots. When I finally got a hysterectomy, I was never so happy to get rid of the part of my body that tortured me 5 days every month. Yeah, scraped knees - ooh, the pain!
Kimberly Irving 5 years ago
Can someone please punch this guy in the gut & lower back multiple times a day for say, oh I don't know, 5 days or so? Oh! And don't forget the pounding headaches, hot flashes, and nipples that feel like someone is trying to slowly pierce them with a dull needle....but hey! I'm sure those skinned knees suck a lot...... : |
Shelley Jelly Belly 5 years ago
I agree. Scraped knees are more painful because I don't get period pains.
don't scam bored panda 5 years ago
I've scraped my knees so many times, you get up, put a band-aid on it, and the pain goes away. Now periods are not like that at all. Try dealing with that once a month until your like, 50 or something like that.
Wonder Gal 5 years ago
I've always wondered. Do men experience nature strains? (In relation to our labor and period pain) do you have sperm pain? Just curious.
Poly Amorous 2 years ago
They do have monthly hormonal changes, much like women, but in a generally lesser degree, and without the whole... everything else. (As far as I'm aware)
Load More Replies... Mae 5 years ago
LOL I'm not sure if the guy is joking or not. If he's not it's like wtf do you think women never get their knees scraped. I played football for 8 years, now my knees are so ugly that it's not a pretty sight whenever I decide to wear short pants/skirts lol. Also, rug burns 😂😅 But still how you compare a knee to a uterus is beyond me lol.
Roxy Eastland 5 years ago
My irritation goes in two directions. Firstly, that this guy thinks women don't scrape their knees. I genuinely can't fathom how his brain got there. But secondly, women, why are so many of us keen to sell menstruation as this incapacitating experience that takes women out of commission and renders them unable to function for at least a fifth of the time? Do they think that helps engender equality? Yes, because our bodies are designed to grow and feed babies our bodies are more complicated, take more management, and have more ways to cause us woe. But I can't see it helps to feed the notion that we're extremely badly designed and barely manage to stagger on month to month.
Greta Hoostal 5 years ago
I think it depends on the woman. Some have it worse than others. I don’t have it bad at all, just occasionally pain that makes me want to sit motionless for an hr & distract myself. OTC med. usu. doesn’t help me at all. B/c opiates are what consistently work on me, if it were bad for me, I’d be in trouble! But maybe everybody has something bad sooner or later, e.g. I’ve had chronic mono for 12 yrs. It’s not just CFS as some people say. Beyond fatigue, it causes chills, night-sweats, chilblains (incl. under the nails), chronic other infections (incl. yeast infections w/ open wounds), & aching lymph-nodes, scalp ones sometimes having pressure erupting into open, weeping, itching, hurting sores which some people have told me they think are actually shingles. 😬 I couldn’t work at a job anymore: things are worse from the least stress, & otherwise come on at random & might last for months. But I believe the women who say their periods are torture. I wouldn’t trade the mono for them. 😄
Load More Replies... Anand Nainar 5 years ago
Ridiculous comment. Bruised knee usually comes together on period days. Women have them both. Start respecting women.
Living_Shadow 5 years ago
I agree with a couple people down there in the comments that I think this guy was joking. But ofc, everyone makes a big deal out of it. Everyone's so sensitive these days calm down. But honestly, if this guy was for real, which I doubt, period pains are HELL. On my worst days, I'd describe them as feeling like a rolled up ball of molten lava in your gut with sharp objects poking out, tearing and burning the area where it is constantly with NO relief. Lying down doesn't help, sitting, or standing. Nothing. No escaping it, you just gotta suffer. I've nearly passed out twice and it's made me cry. Hot water bottles are supposed to help so one time I let the bottle burn my skin because I wanted to drown out the cramping pain with the sharp pain of my skin burning. That's how bad it got.
Hamish Mckenzie 5 years ago
Jesus obviously he's joking "oh he's mansplaining" like broo we all know period pains are s**t like the dude is making a joke and y'all jumped on him
Susi Schnabel 5 years ago
First of all I understand why most of the people are upset about his tweets. I am a woman myself and period cramps are not fun at all but I'm wondering why is it necessary to show a photo of this man? Seems like he has committed a crime and needs to be warned of. Isn't that a little too much? When a funny or stupid Facebook post of a person is shared on here, the tiny profile pictures aren't even shown. Again, I agree this man doesn't know what he's talking about and should shut up but why do you feel the need to show a photograph of him and make him look like a criminal. Stupidity on this level is not criminal I believe.
Lisa Leuschner Andersen 5 years ago
He’s a troll and getting exactly what he wanted.
Load More Replies... Tor Rolf Strøm 5 years ago
This guy is obviously either joking or r******d, this whole thing should have stopped after WOMEN CAN ALSO SKIN THEIR KNEES U MORON.
Moo Moo Futch 5 years ago
My new favourite things of 2019, reading comments and meme replies to stupid anti-vax mothers clucking about some preventable s**t and men talking about periods like they know what it feels like to have a dyson vacuum up the snatcheroo once a month having your guts sucked out along with the unbearable pain of stomach cramps, a*s hole cramp, lower back pain, ultra painful titties, bank breaking period protection and a murderous urge for chocolate, Netflix a duvet and ibuprofen.
Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
"dyson vacuum up the snatcheroo once a month" may be my newest favourite expression
Load More Replies... Roy Spaan 5 years ago
If this is an honest post: it's dumb. if it's a joke or whatever, it's still dumb. people are right in wanting to rip him a new one. I don't quite fully agree with the "no uterus, no opinion" mentality though. Everybody is entitled to an opinion on the matter, as long as it's with some f*****g brains. Though obviously men can't know exactly what it feels like. Someone mentioned some test where men COULD feel it. I'd be interested in experiencing that before being able to make any real comments. I'd like to end on: Why do both men and women keep feeling the need to compare eachothers suffering? (Aside from jokers like "I skinned my knee") It's not a contest. No one 'wins' here. Nor is either side exempt from feeling pain or voicing it simply because the other side has it worse.
Patrick McKenna 5 years ago
There was a time when both sexes could be joked about and lampooned...now it's all a one way street, or they label you a misogynist.
Rachel Booker 5 years ago
Forget about menstruation simulators. Let's just randomly walk up to guys once a month and start punching them in the gut...throw in a few rabbit punches to the low back, just to keep it interesting.
Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago
But I have hurt both my knees like that! I fell and cut one knee completely open, about 10 cm wide, with skin tissue bubbling out and blood pouring out and down my leg in to my shoe. Which I had to throw away because it got too fkn drenched in blood. That was nothing in comparison to cramps so STFU. Any man who keeps taking about uteruses should just get a punch in the groin.
Alia G. 5 years ago
God, sorry you got downvoted so much. Seems a lot of guys want to believe they unconditionally suffer more than women.
Load More Replies... Lizzie Roth 5 years ago
joke or not, you have to expect that most women are going to take it seriously.
Michelle Dodson 5 years ago
Oh, you's got a widdle boo boo? Trying giving birth with no epidural, you candy a*s little pussy!
Kitty 5 years ago
I think it depends on the women some people get worse cramps that others some periods are worse than others and it is hard to compare I can get really bad ones but others are fine
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