Hi Tanyagrave,

Men are conditioned from birth against verbalising these things, but men also - I've never been a woman so this is unsubstantiated! - tend to encounter a certain level of systematic abuse. At school, in the military and even, disturbingly, in the workplace. My hugely presumptious theory then is that we have "thicker skins" than women.

We also tend to convert feelings into anger more readily than women - so the reaction to the abuse will present in a different way.

So no, as a man, I don't believe it is worse for a man.

Other men may disagree though :-)