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QuestionWhy do people think that being kicked in the genitals can only hurt for men?
Posted March 1, 2025 by Sweetsummerchild in Women

For context: this dumb meme on Facebook where one character kicks another between the legs as a "gender check". So I guess the assumption here is that if you feel pain when kicked in the genitals that must mean you have a penis. And I heard this belief many times, that poor men are disadvantaged because they can be kicked in the balls, while women are lucky because they have "nothing there". Um, no, we're not Barbie dolls, there IS something there. And for some reason a man being kicked or hit etc in the genitals is a classic joke in movies and TV shows. It's weird to me that men find that funny.

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12 comments

MaryDyerMarch 1, 2025(Edited March 1, 2025)

I mean sure, getting kicked in the crotch for a female isn’t sunshine and roses, but it most certainly doesn’t make us fall to the ground temporarily paralyzed. In third grade I got hit there by a football thrown at full speed from like 50 feet away, and I just sort of said “…ow.” and went about my day. A male would have probably vomited up a lung and shat himself. In high school my guy friend and I were sitting at my table playing cards. It’s a very very low coffee table, and my friend was 6’8”, so his knees were practically up to his shoulders. My cat walked through the room, under my friend’s legs, and her tail flicked him in the crotch. His reaction cemented in my mind the fact that males are indeed the inferior sex.

Now if that football had hit me in the chest it would have certainly hurt much more, since I started developing in third grade. Even then, I still wouldn’t have thrown myself onto the ground, writhing and moaning. I would have kept the pain to myself as well as I could. That’s the difference between males and females, and how TIMs are 100% male in their reaction to pain. Boys writhe about after a hit to the nads because that’s how they’re conditioned. They’re conditioned to believe that, while a man should never show pain or emotion, it’s okay in the event that their beloved “family jewels” take a hit. Girls, on the other hand, don’t make a scene when our developing breasts get whacked by a slammed gate, or when we’re experiencing debilitating cramps in the middle of seventh grade language arts. We’re taught to be ashamed of our growing bodies. You won’t find an eight year old girl screaming “My tiddie!” after something hurts her breast. That’s something very private, and if we tell anybody, it’ll be in a whisper to our best friend. Meanwhile TIMs over on Reddit are posting everyday about their booba, and how deliciously painful they are, and how they can’t stop playing with them, and uwu.

nomenarewomenMarch 1, 2025

That’s the difference between males and females, and how TIMs are 100% male in their reaction to pain.

Could not agree more. I learnt very quickly as a young teen that literally no one was bothered about my chronic pain and that ever mentioning it only got me bullied. You learn to hide it and if you do show it people presume you’re making a big deal about nothing.

I’m glad men have a physically vulnerable spot though - that and the eyes. (For self defence)

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PracticalMagicMarch 2, 2025

True. I fought with my brother as a child and learned that me kicking him in the groin hurt him waaaay worse than his kick had hurt me.

We both learned something useful that day.

WCLMarch 2, 2025

I used to do gymnastics. Falling crotch first on a balance beam? Yes, it hurts but nowhere near falling to the ground, writhing in pain. You get up and keep tumbling.

ThelnebriatiMarch 1, 2025

When my kids were small I had a step-over stairgate on the stairs, and one day I was in a rush and being stupidly careless and my foot slipped off the stair. I fell and landed on my labia. I can assure you it was fantastically painful, I was stunned, fell to the floor and couldn't move or breath properly for several minutes. I ended up with a hematoma the size of an egg that took months to go down.

HoneycreeperBird LesbianMarch 2, 2025

Ouch! Usually if we get hit down there, it’s by the pubic bone, where there’s natural cushion, but the labia? That is gonna hurt 100%

EvileineMarch 2, 2025

Ow!!!

AmareldysMarch 2, 2025(Edited March 2, 2025)

Having accidentally hit my clit on a table corner… ooo yeah. But a clit is more tucked away.so unless you get hit directly by something like a table corner…

It was when I was a kid and I am still not sure how I managed it

EvileineMarch 2, 2025

I did full contact medieval martial arts back in the day. At my first battle I took a pike to the cooch. I was wearing protection, but you better believe I spent a couple very unhappy minutes on the ground. I sat on an ice pack for a few blissful moments and jumped back into the fray as good as new.

butchpleaseMarch 2, 2025

Because women's genitals, in men's minds, are made to be "destroyed" (look at the captions of common porn videos), "tortured", "broken" etc. Men's genitals are precious and dominant and holy and criticising or hurting them in any way is the worst thing you could ever do to anyone; oh, and also, anything men experience is 10000 times worse than whatever women experience.

See also: the frequent memes and discussions on Reddit that pretend being kicked in the balls hurts worse than giving birth.

ItzpapalotlMarch 2, 2025

Yeah, I’ve walked into the corners of tables before and you do get a kind of feeling of unravelling doom - ( like, your mind recognises this is just a small injury but good lord it HURTS like, am I dying?! Like having a IUD fitted)

My pain tolerance really is quite good generally. Men seem to be completely debilitated by very minimal contact with their nether regions - I find it comforting knowing what point to go for if I get attacked by a man.