I'm a total man when it comes to being ill.
I moan and whinge and demand cups of tea to be made. When I was gainfully employed, I got told to stay home when I was even the tiniest bit ill, rather than infect the rest of the workforce. This is advice I've taken thoroughly to heart.

Alt: I once fell out with my best friend at school because she told everyone my embarrassing middle name, even though I'd asked her not to. We didn't talk for two whole years. That's stubborn idiocy, right there.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:21, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

See now I want to know your embarrassing middle name.

(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:23, Reply)

It's actually not that embarrassing, unless you're fifteen.
One of my middle names is winifred, after my grandmother.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:24, Reply)

It's interesting how this stereo type continues.
There is a case for saying women get sick more often (I think I've seen stats for this but can't remember where) but less seriously and men less often but worse, and thus we get a rep for being cry babies.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:28, Reply)

Ahh, remembered the logic to this.
It was based on the idea, that women go to the doc/take time off at the first sniffle, and thus get better far quicker, where as men soldier on until they are pretty much dead before admitting it and then, begrudgingly, take time off.


Women assume that men are only as sick as they would be if they took time off and thus judge men to be making a meal of it, when actually they are sicker, al be it through their own stubborn stupidity.

Not sure how true this is, but it's an interesting perspective.

Kinda like how women are the 'safest drivers' because (allegedly) they have lots of little bumps and scraps which mean very little insurance-wise but are rather less likely to have big massive accidents like men do(again allegedly).
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:40, Reply)