“I will take stereotypes for a thousand Alex”
:rolleyes:
Heh. This particular stereotype always makes me laugh. My bf, who is a man ( I looked to make sure! ) 
is stoic and uncomplaining when ill.
I, on the other hand, when I am ill whine and moan and complain and cry and go ‘but iiiiit’s not fair’ and then cry again and then cry after that because all the crying made my nose run even more than it was already and then I say about how my face is a mask of pain because my nose is so sore and then bf makes fun of me for being melodramatic etc.
So you see, even though I am a woman, I clearly skived off the day the ‘stoic ill woman’ gene was handed out by God.
Either that or stereotypes are bunk 
who knows?
You know, you keep picking at that Loknar, and it’s never gonna get better, Hanover.
[sub]Couldn’t let that slide unremarked. Carry on.[/sub]
I was wondering the same thing. It’s difficult for me to believe that people who think such things get around unassisted in the world.
I wish “MY” man would “act like a baby” when he’s sick. Then I could be all nurturing and make things for him, rub his back, that sort of thing.
He’s one of those people who doesn’t really want to be bothered, just sleeps it off.
Though he is a bit grumpy. I don’t think that’s being “babyish” though, I think most of us get grumpy when we feel like crap.
As a tangent, I hope the OP has an organ donor card and has checked the bits necessary to donate everything to research. Medical science has got to be interested in a brain whose surface is perfectly smooth and frictionless.
Oh great - another pearl of wisdom from our resident man-hater.:rolleyes:
Hey, we men are stronger, more athletic, more rational, more intelligent, more emotionally stable, and better leaders - we’ve gotta have some faults.
aren’t stereotypes silly?
Hey, leave Isabelle alone - ALL women make sweeping generalisations! 
Isabelle Kind of answered her own question…
Men whinge and moan when their sick, women whinge and moan on days that end with ‘y’. Men are used to the whinging and moaning and are conditioned to partially ignore it whereas women aren’t.
The only way you can tell a woman is crook is due to the increase in snot and used tissues, an increase in the desire for chocolate and the doona being on the couch all day!
yes, Lurks is obviously joking…maybe
Wow. It’s like I could barely understand that.
OK, ‘whinge’ I got…though I think ill of it.
‘Crook’ I’m assuming means sick or somesuch, right?
‘Doona’ leaves me mystified. Really, it’s like my brain is buzzing.
Well done!
I’m male.
I’m sick today (runny nose, cough … typical cold virus).
And yet, I’m here at work, sitting at my desk.
(Of course, I’m on the SDMB, and not doing much actual work …)
I believe it was matt_mcl (and excuse me if I have the attribution wrong) who once said, with tongue partially in cheek, “Why is it that when straight people have problems with their significant others, they think these problems extend to the whole of the opposite sex?”
Honestly, Isabelle, there are three fucking billion of us. I don’t think your experiences with three or four men are an accurate sample of the entire male sex.
But what about the ones she saw on TV, huh? That easily puts her into the realm of a representative sample.
While I agree with the sentiment, I don’t think Isabelle hates men per se. She’s just ignorant about them. Which is OK… we’re here to fight ignorance, right?
Personally, when I get sick (and I mean really sick, like can’t get up without the room flipping over sick), I prefer to hole myself up in my bedroom for a day or so and do nothing. I don’t make demands on my wife or kids, other than asking them (firmly) to leave me alone until I’m feeling better. My wife, being the dear person she is, will bring me food and drink occasionally, or get a new book for me when I’ve finished the one I was reading. That’s about the extent of the “pampering” I get. What am I missing out on, I’m wondering?
When my wife gets sick, she does like to feel doted on. I can understand that, it’s a nice feeling. I get her pillows, medication, food drink, the remote (she gets control of the TV, of course), and I rub her back or feet if it helps. I sit and talk with her… something I like to do anyway, but she’s often too busy to have a lot of time for it.
I wonder if all these counter-examples are even putting a dent in Isabelle’s monolithic view of men and/or women?
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I was wondering who believes those ads on TV that say, “four out of five doctors recommend Brand X!*”
*May cause explosive diarrhea, leprosy, porphyria, sudden death, war, famine, pestilence, penile/mammary shrinkage/retraction, teratomas, benign mullet growth, prolapsed rectum with possible prehensility, testicular elephantiasis, premature rigor mortis, Goatse’s disease, tulpas, bad taste in lawn ornaments, alien abduction, government surveillance, paranoia, spontaneous wormhole manifestation, Guinea worm infestation, nuclear bromodrosis, lethal flatulence, Communist infiltration, parallel universe collision, Communist indoctrination, violations of causality, Communist subversion, harlequin fetus, religious fundamentalism, international Communist conspiracy, tentacle rape, depleted bank account, impotence, sapping and impurification of all our precious bodily fluids, fnord, heat death, and/or eternal hellfire. Use as directed.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Agreed.
I never let a girl baby me when I’m sick. I can be too dizzy to stand and I’ll still make my own way into the kitchen and find my own food. (sometimes I’ll let them go out and get some food at a fast food place if they really want to help but nothing more then what they might do if we were both well)
on the other hand when a girl I know is sick I can’t do enough for them heck a week ago I had a fairly bad cold and I went down and watched my cousins store for her b/c she was ‘sick’. (BTW I seemed much sicker then her but what the hell)
Has anyone actually posted the real reason yet?
(Name of thread should be “why are circumcised men babies when they get sick?” This ref. is one of several similyer* studies)
(*as they say in Indiana)
Despite what it says on the farebox, change is often inexact.