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Report: Average Male 4,000% Less Effective In Fights Than They Imagine (theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Male faces are evolved to handle getting hit. Also your adrenaline would have caused you to barely feel anything in the moment.

Edit: this is what I remembered reading about this, turns out it was ten years ago: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/men-s-faces-evolved-to-be-punched-study-suggests-1.2670756

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If it's a legitimate fight, the male body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That study has an insane jump to conclusion considering that they just studied

1 The skulls of early hominins — human relatives — called australopiths that lived around four million years ago. 2 The injuries of modern humans who show up in the hospital emergency room after a fight.

I do like the idea that the reason we evolved to humans and not a different species is because we made a fight club.