Yeah and headlines like this come out, then suddenly when I (as a man) mention having chronic pain, people will hit me with the "but studies say that women feel more pain than men!"

Yeah, well that doesn't make my pain go away. But I suppose that's just a non-falsifiable anecdote, so the proper academic perspective is that my subjective experience of pain is empirically unsound.

How that differs in any way from the study participants' experience of pain is anybody's guess, but I suppose it's easier to get research funding if you make your study sound feminist so...

There's also a masculinity component, will men even log minor pain or is it so ingrained that pain needs to reach a certain threshold to count?

It's tough to say, I'd be interesting to see this done across cultures to see if when properly controlled some cultures have more pain in men. More study needed.

lol women literally deal with an entire week of pain every week for decades. So, yea. Women do feel more pain and so we have a higher pain tolerance from being told to suck it up and work at a higher level than men.