Why Are Women So Unsympathetic?

[Virgil]

It's true!!! I ask based on this article:

Men's cold comfort: A woman's sympathy lasts just five minutes when her partner gets the sniffles
By Daily Mail Reporter

Most men know better than to expect much sympathy from their partner when they catch a cold.
In fact, a woman's patience with a sniffling chap tends to run out in a mere five minutes, a survey claims.
Wives and girlfriends freely admit that they have little time for their partner's suffering after the cold bug strikes.

But when it is the woman who is feeling below par, a man will not only mop her brow but will even take a day off to look after her, cook and clean.
The study, from the makers of the cold treatment Lemsip All In One, casts doubt on the traditional image of a female nursemaiding her husband or boyfriend through the coughs and sneezes of what has become known as man flu.
It found 52 per cent of women say they lose sympathy for their under-the-weather partner within five minutes of his starting to complain.
And 18 per cent of women don't even last that long, admitting they start off unsympathetic and continue from there.

By contrast 70 per cent of men claim to be sympathetic to a partner with a cold. [SNIP]

Read the remainder here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-sniffles.html

Read that last sentence before I snipped the article. Ha!!! I knew it. This is a one way street. Why is this so?

[TheFifthElement]

By contrast 70 per cent of men claim to be sympathetic to a partner with a cold.

Read that last sentence before I snipped the article. Ha!!! I knew it. This is a one way street. Why is this so?

Oh, that's easy Virgil. Women are more honest than men

[Virgil]

Oh, that's easy Virgil. Women are more honest than men

My wife disputes the whole article. But I do know I hardly get any sympathy from her when I'm sick and I try to ease her discomfort when the roles are reversed.

[JBI]

Quite simple - men need women more than women need men. Seriously though, it has to do with the whole macho mentality. Men are supposed to be tough, and are supposed to go out and shovel the snow in the driveway, cold or not. Women are stereotypically portrayed as frail, and delicate.

The old-world stereotypes still apply. But I guess we have managed to kick the whole 1950s homemaker mentality to some extent.

[1n50mn14]

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

[Virgil]

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 are absolutely right. That is definitely the reason. Very good Becca, and frankly I would not trade places with you women.

[pussnboots]

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!!!!

[1n50mn14]

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

[Tournesol]

So, we don't look after the men when they catch the sniffles...big deal!

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

[Cailin]

Cynical woman here wondering why the "Daily Mail Reporter" didn't identify their gender by using their name? Could it be that this is a ploy by a man currently experiencing the "man flu" to get some sympathy?

[motherhubbard]

When I’m sick I still have to get up and run the house and farm and make sure everyone’s needs are met… and I have to be so stinking nice about it. When my husband has ANYTHING wrong with him he starts complaining and heads for the bed. He’s not so nice about it either. I just don’t have sympathy. I say buck up. If he stubs his toe he makes a huge production about it. My breast was impaled with a drill chuck key and my kids were standing less than arms length from me so I didn’t make a sound. I just smiled and said “It’s Okay kids, this is no big deal” It felt like a darn big deal! I just don’t care for all of the drama. When something is whine worthy I take care of him, but I don’t want to kiss every booboo and he’s actually worse than the kids. Everyone has something to complain about and it doesn’t get better as you get older, but that doesn’t mean that every little ache or pain merits sympathy.

[kasie]

[QUOTE=Virgil;643273] It's true!!! I ask based on this article:




Read the remainder here: http://www<b>.dailymail.</b>co.uk/ne...-sniffles.html QUOTE]

Virgil! This is the Daily Mail - you never, but never, believe anything you read in the Daily Mail - trust me on this!!

[Niamh]

My wife disputes the whole article. But I do know I hardly get any sympathy from her when I'm sick and I try to ease her discomfort when the roles are reversed.

I agree with your wife. Shes a clever woman. That article is the biggest load of you know what i have ever read. I dont know any man who does any of that for a sick woman. And i dont know any woman who has been treated that way. I'm sure the men used the sick wife as an excuse to get a day off work so they could sit around all day watching tv.
And while we are on it, being a man can you please explain why it is that when men get sniffles, they carry on like they are dying? How can you expect symphathy when you over exagerate how ill you are?

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

Couldnt have said it better myself! Cheers Becca!

Cynical woman here wondering why the "Daily Mail Reporter" didn't identify their gender by using their name? Could it be that this is a ploy by a man currently experiencing the "man flu" to get some sympathy?

good question.

Virgil! This is the Daily Mail - you never, but never, believe anything you read in the Daily Mail - trust me on this!!

Bad tabloid. Just not as bad as others but still bad.

[Virgil]

I knew this would get a reaction. Well, what can I say.

[Shalot]

In my experience, men generally don't seem to know how to manage the symptoms of their colds and allergies...

I mean, go to the store and buy some Robitussin and don't take it on an empty stomach and then whine because your stomach hurts.

If your sniffles are symptoms of allergies, buy some Claritin or Sudaphed from behind the pharmacy counter (b/c they can't sell it without taking your ID number b/c it's used to make meth...) and your symptoms will stop being so bothersome...don't just stand there and sneeze all day when you could buy a pill that controls it.

If you have a cough and sore throat, take some Halls, even if you don't enjoy the taste...

And, whenever I get sick, my coughing and carrying on tends to annoy the crap out of my husband as well. He's still not convinced that my infrequent migraines aren't ploys to get out of social situations I don't want to be in, and if I wake up with the puking virus he will relunctantly get me cold sprite and popsicles.

It's not just women. In general, sick people are annoying...