Brief article about the study: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/health/female-expert-confirms-that-man-flu-1553803
Karl of course, fully endorses this theory.
Karl of course, fully endorses this theory.
No surprise here. I have known from early childhood that men are the weaker sex in everything other than sheer physical strength.
As a rule, men do not like to be sick and deny it until they are pretty bad off.
As a rule, men are big ole babies and want you to become their mother when they have the sniffles.
When men get sick, we really get sick. And as has now been conclusively shown by science, men have a greater capacity for suffering, and are therefore obviously entitled to higher standards of care when in distress.
What am I then, a woman in a male disguise?
I don't know. We only have your word that you're not a whiny crybaby about being sick. None of the whiny crybabies I've known have thought they were whiny crybabies - they were just convinced that nobody had ever been as sick as they were.
Oh, but I never get that sick. The worst thing I can remember was when I had the flu and was knocked for 2 days straight. Then I went to the computer whilst still being ill because lying down that much was frikkin' boring. Stomach flus are never nice of course, but it's not too bad after the intense stomachache disappears.
No surprise here. I have known from early childhood that men are the weaker sex in everything other than sheer physical strength.
I don't know. We only have your word that you're not a whiny crybaby about being sick. None of the whiny crybabies I've known have thought they were whiny crybabies - they were just convinced that nobody had ever been as sick as they were.