In my experience women are more pain-tolerant than men. I often witnessed men complaining about relatively little things which are not comparable at all to menstruation pain which most of us women have to go through 12–14 times a year.

Nevertheless, I agree that men are brought up NOT to be “weak”, but to do tough things and not to talk about their pain, at least not publicly. In the family circle they often do in the way I described above. “They”?, the guys I came to be in close relationship with, and I guess many others.