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You were born with innate high pain tolerance, but your daughter is a whimp because she didn’t win genetic lottery like you?

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I think they're using it hyperbolically. As a parent (who also maybe has a high pain tolerance but I am a guy and we are famous for both thinking that and for not being pain tolerant) my daughter is currently like this including the earrings thing. It's more of a frustration but I know she will grow out of it as she's already gotten a lot better. I would imagine OP is in the same boat and is just letting off a little rhetorical steam.

"I think they're using it hyperbolically."

You'd think my comment's thesis that folks with lower tolerances should be respected and treated differently would have given the rhetorical device away.

There’s always someone online who will assume the worst interpretation. It’s unfortunate.

Yeah but have you considered they’re slow? Probably had bad parents.

Not slow, culturally inoculated hypersensitivity.

Wimp is a derogatory term with defined meaning. Try to educate yourself and your buddy before commenting something like that.

Or playful.

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