"Men Suck at Being Sick"

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-08-28 21:37

Article here. Excerpt:

'And I'm going on record to say that it's not just my husband. I'm prepared to throw a large majority of men under the bus here, although not Clint Eastwood or my grandfather. So there are of course exceptions.

But according to women everywhere, men just can't handle the pain. They wheeze and whine, they moan and complain, they need fretting over and fussing, while the wives nurse the baby while standing up, cooking dinner and overseeing homework, all with a 103 temperature, a broken leg and three broken arms. Yeah, three.

It makes me rethink some of the turns of phrase I randomly use without thinking like, "Take it like a man," or "man up." How did these become part of the vernacular? I think "Take it like woman" is more appropriate, and from now on I'm telling my boys to "Mom up," because if there's something we know how to do, it's suffer.'

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But you have to admit, the article's funny. Look guys, yet another thing women do better than us!

While she's trying to be funny with the subject, she makes it clear she means every word of it. And she's utterly wrong, but perhaps she's got limited experience living with men or men who are sick. Many ppl see their mates as representatives of the "other sex", making generalizations abt the entire gender based on their experiences w/ just one member thereof.

I recall reading abt a Soviet combat division during WWII comprised, to a man, with men stricken with influenza and the attendant symptoms: high fevers, chills, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. I can't recall the exact year, but the story is that they repelled a German attack made up of a force nearly three times their size, the Germans not sick themselves (at least, not yet). I could generalize to say that all men are "good at being sick" b/c these men were able to endure heavy, prolonged combat while suffering from the flu, but that wouldn't be accurate. I couldn't even generalize that all Soviet men serving in WWII were "good at being sick", since that's not true either.

But this is a Huff-fluff pander-piece. Generally speaking, you can count on the HuffPo for that. The HuffPo is just bad at being a source of news. Always. I don't mind throwing every issue of it under the bus, b/c its TRUE! :)

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-08-30 14:10