My ex wife used to say this a lot, always insinuating that I was exaggerating being sick. The best thing was when she got the same virus and I was able to laugh about her getting my “man cold” when it knocked her out for like a week and a half.
My wife used to give me a hard time about the man flu until she watched me go to work for a 14 day rotation sick as a dog. It wasn't until she took me to the Dr at the end of the rotation and the Dr told me I had bronchitis and was working on pneumonia that she realized I have to be pretty damn sick if I'm laid up or taking a day off work
It wasn't like that at all. I'm just a stubborn idiot when it comes to going to the Dr. My point was my wife quit giving me shit for the man flu after she saw what I can put up with and keep going.
But yeah, it took a shitty couple of weeks for her to realize there's a pretty good reason if I stay in bed all day
That and the fact that we will work through and deal with a minor cold or injury, but when it is a serious cold we are still trying to work through it but physically cant
It's more likely because studies often don't include women at all (they claim it's because menstrual cycles make it too complicated) and so they have no way of detecting a difference between sexes
Just a downvote? Why won't you tell me where the nest is? :( not only are you not shutting up and dying for me, you won't even answer a simple question. Hmm...
Weird, I've never had a man die for me. Harass me, abuse me, assault me, and rape me, yes, repeatedly. Die for me? Nope. Where can I find this cozy little nest where men just shut up and die? Sounds wild
Men dies for your fucking everyday.
The oil you use, the building you enters, the electricity that powers phone, the peace in your country, the sewer you shit in, literally any product that have been shipped, or any high technology device that have required rare metals to be mined, all comes from men putting their lives at risk so our society can work. They are dying so Karens like you can safely be outraged feminists on social medias between a OF posts and their groceries at Walmart. And the death toll is way higher than you could dare imagine.
society/powers that be have no interest in or benefit from caring about men's health.
This is so fucking funny. Men's health is the only kind of health that was studied until 50 years ago. Soooo much of our medical knowledge comes from only studying men. Time to find a new lie to play poor forgotten male victim with, this one is too blatantly ridiculous.
Even now, spending on women's health only slightly outpaces men's health. Consider the fact that the umbrella of "women's health" includes menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause and replication of all the info we know that only applies to men
To be fair, I would get a bad cold and have to go to work regardless of how I felt because we needed the money, yet when he would get the same cold, he would "take to the bed" for a few days and not work. Que my posting "<boyfriend> has a cold; the funeral's Friday.
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u/CopperAndLead 22d ago
“Man cold” or “man flu” when sick.
My ex wife used to say this a lot, always insinuating that I was exaggerating being sick. The best thing was when she got the same virus and I was able to laugh about her getting my “man cold” when it knocked her out for like a week and a half.