Another reason why is good to be a woman

Apparently, the fairer sex actually has more tolerance for pain than those big manly crybabies.

When estrogen levels are high, there's an increased number of areas in the brain where endorphins can "park." The more "parking places" available, Zubieta says, the more endorphins there are on call, waiting to flood the body with "feel good" chemicals capable of overriding pain signals.

Of course, my mother, a single mother of two, could have told you that already. Apparently I was a 10 pound baby.