Why Are Women So Unsympathetic?

[JBI]

I don't know - I haven't been sick since I was 6 years old. Not even a cough.

[cipherdecoy]

I don't know - I haven't been sick since I was 6 years old. Not even a cough.

You freak!

I come down with flus every now and then.

[applepie]

Oh my gosh, I was almost on the floor after reading this. I'm not sympathetic at all, but I also don't feel like I get too looked after. Not for a cold anyhow. Tom was great about helping out for a week or two after I gave birth to Victoria. Anyhow, how much more sympathetic can I be. I already pick up most of the household chores, and I just grab up the last couple when he's ill. I just don't get why he'll just lie on the couch and whine rather than getting him self up to bed to get some rest. That's always my idea to help him feel better. A bit of medicine and rest will work wonders, but nooooooo he has to sit there, take nothing, and complain all day. After fifteen or twenty minutes of doing nothing to help himself and just griping, I tend to get a little mean myself. It's like having a huge child who you have to force the necessary medication down their throat to help them feel better I think it is tied to the idea that men are too manly to medicate something to make themselves more comfortable. Often he would feel fine if he would just take a couple Tylenol

[Virgil]

Glad you got a good laugh out of it Meg.

I don't know - I haven't been sick since I was 6 years old. Not even a cough.

Wow, that is incredible JBI. I bet your wife will love that. I used get the flu/cold every fall growing up. For some reason they don't come as frequently lately. Must be getting immune.

[JBI]

Glad you got a good laugh out of it Meg.



Wow, that is incredible JBI. I bet your wife will love that. I used get the flu/cold every fall growing up. For some reason they don't come as frequently lately. Must be getting immune.

Yeah, I also have none of the shots - none. I'm on a good streak - never got the flu shot, didn't get the Meningitis shot, or the Hep B shot, or any of the others. That's probably why I don't get sick, thinking about it - and I live in Canada too, where it is freaking cold to boot.

But enough bragging, seriously who was the Doctor running the test anyway? They didn't really provide any citations in the article.

[Virgil]

But enough bragging, seriously who was the Doctor running the test anyway? They didn't really provide any citations in the article.

I think it was a survey. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

[motherhubbard]

Oh my gosh, I was almost on the floor after reading this. I'm not sympathetic at all, but I also don't feel like I get too looked after. Not for a cold anyhow. Tom was great about helping out for a week or two after I gave birth to Victoria. Anyhow, how much more sympathetic can I be. I already pick up most of the household chores, and I just grab up the last couple when he's ill. I just don't get why he'll just lie on the couch and whine rather than getting him self up to bed to get some rest. That's always my idea to help him feel better. A bit of medicine and rest will work wonders, but nooooooo he has to sit there, take nothing, and complain all day. After fifteen or twenty minutes of doing nothing to help himself and just griping, I tend to get a little mean myself. It's like having a huge child who you have to force the necessary medication down their throat to help them feel better I think it is tied to the idea that men are too manly to medicate something to make themselves more comfortable. Often he would feel fine if he would just take a couple Tylenol

Oh Meg, that was great!

[Niamh]

Oh my gosh, I was almost on the floor after reading this. I'm not sympathetic at all, but I also don't feel like I get too looked after. Not for a cold anyhow. Tom was great about helping out for a week or two after I gave birth to Victoria. Anyhow, how much more sympathetic can I be. I already pick up most of the household chores, and I just grab up the last couple when he's ill. I just don't get why he'll just lie on the couch and whine rather than getting him self up to bed to get some rest. That's always my idea to help him feel better. A bit of medicine and rest will work wonders, but nooooooo he has to sit there, take nothing, and complain all day. After fifteen or twenty minutes of doing nothing to help himself and just griping, I tend to get a little mean myself. It's like having a huge child who you have to force the necessary medication down their throat to help them feel better I think it is tied to the idea that men are too manly to medicate something to make themselves more comfortable. Often he would feel fine if he would just take a couple Tylenol

Thats exactly my point!

[optimisticnad]

Lol. Loved the article - but come on, its the Daily Mail!!! They still think the world is flat.

As for women being unsympathetic when their man is ill - OF COURSE. they spend six weeks in bed, doing very little, it's like a bloody holiday for them. I mean you're supposed to be the stronger sex so why does it take you longer to recover? Useless! When we're ill - well, let's just say the world would literally stop running if we went to bed and slept and ate and watched footy for six weeks!

[papayahed]

ugh!! sheesh men get a paper cut and the next thing you know they're walking around with a cast on their arm!! Seriously, the guys I have worked with are babys. This summer one guy got bug bite on the back of his head and was practically in tears asking me what to do if it hurts during the night..

[Virgil]

ugh!! sheesh men get a paper cut and the next thing you know they're walking around with a cast on their arm!! Seriously, the guys I have worked with are babys. This summer one guy got bug bite on the back of his head and was practically in tears asking me what to do if it hurts during the night..

Sounds like that guy was trying to suggest something to you papaya.

[optimisticnad]

Sounds like that guy was trying to suggest something to you papaya.

Damn. That sounds like a line I was meant to say! Welldone for beating me to it.

[Taliesin]

We have to go through childbirth and bleed for a week every month without dying, of COURSE we don't sympathize with you and your silly colds! :P

you forgot to mention gynecologist visits and the dreadful mammogram!!!!

=O Ahaha, so we have to put up with all that, AND all of the colds and regular stuff.

What about ALL the OTHER THINGS we do for them?! Don't those things count?!

ugh!! sheesh ...

Well, looking at this thread I rather do get an impression about which sex whines more.
Fortunately, for men, a solution exists.

[Niamh]

Sounds like that guy was trying to suggest something to you papaya.

What? maybe she could kiss it better for him?

Damn. That sounds like a line I was meant to say! Welldone for beating me to it.

yes! it does sound like something you would say!

[Virgil]

Well, looking at this thread I rather do get an impression about which sex whines more.
Fortunately, for men, a solution exists.

Oh Tal, that was hilarious. I've got tears in my eyes.