A speaker questions whether women's supposed sensitivity to cold is real or learned, then describes an ice bath where female participants matched the men's performance and showed equal composure, proving the stereotype wrong.
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Somehow, whether it's social conditioning or whether it's physiological, we grow up thinking that we're not very good with cold. We seem to be more sensitive to it. A lot of my female friends are very sensitive to cold, and whether we just perpetuate that belief, I don't know. Well, there's a program running in there somewhere. But actually, all of the women, you know, were really supportive, and we all did just as— we did the same. You know, there was no difference in the end between how we embraced the challenges, what we wanted to get from it, all really similar. So I think that that initial sort of, oh, there's, there's all these nails in the room, actually all of that just didn't matter in the end. Didn't matter in one bit.