Woman are sooooo flimsy
By every measure woman spend more time being "ill" than men. Days off work sick, prescription and self medication usage, visits to doctors. Check out the adverts for medicines on the telly, there's a reason why they're nearly all directed at women.

There's women I work with who complain about some minor headache or chill every fucking day. They seem to use it as a social activity "I've got a headache" will be met with "So have I"

Women have a particular self absorption when it comes to health, they believe they are soldiering on through some sort of illness 75% of the time.

They "suffer" massively from made up problems. Slow Digestive Transit, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Environmental Sensitivities.

And that's how the man flu myth arose. When men are ill WE ARE ACTUALLY ILL and take ourselves to bed for a day or so, then go back to work, were we remain well for 6-12 months....invariably to be met by a comment about man flu from some women, with a desk draw full of tablets, who takes 5 times as many days of sick.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 31 Dec 2009, 8:58, 13 replies)

Yes!
This man flu myth - the reason you hear us moan incredibly about the same illness you had 2 years ago, the one where you bravely soldiered on, is that we ACTUALLY HAVE some kind of illness where as you had the SNIFFLES.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 9:22, closed)

Seasonal Affective Disorder
is real.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 9:44, closed)

yes it is
but do the 5x as many woman who report the problem all actually have it?
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 31 Dec 2009, 9:56, closed)

The thing about Man Flu
Is the whinging and whining.
If you're going to be ill just get on and do it, don't moan and complain about it.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 31 Dec 2009, 10:37, closed)

We moan and whinge
because we actually ARE ill and it deserves whinging about!

Conversely, as women are so used to whinging over (not really) being ill, they think we're not ill we're just faking.. BUT WE ARE ILL!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:04, closed)

Because if we don't keep reminding them....
....bloody women will forget that we are poorly in ten minutes flat, and will therefore continue with the endless nagging to fix doors, open jars, mend taps or the hundreds of other things that they are simply not capable of doing.
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 13:54, closed)

agreed.
90% of NHS funds are spent on Women (not including pregnancy / birth) and the elderly.

The average 16-30 year old woman will visit the Doctors (For non contraceptive / screening reasons) 6-7 times a year.

The average 16-30 year old male, just twice.
( zacherynuk @echo off, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 10:50, closed)

.
Thats probably why men die younger.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:04, closed)

"Why do Husbands Die Before their Wives?"
"Because they fucking want to."
( zacherynuk @echo off, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 11:18, closed)

^This
is fucking brilliant!
(zebby wasting irony here on, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 13:28, closed)

twice a year?
I'm still registered with the same doctor my mum registered me with when I was 6. The last time I saw him was when my mum registered me with him. When I was six.

The only medical contact I've had since then has either been trips to a&e (2 in my lifetime) and checkups at the cockrot clinic (3 times total, twice at the end of a long term relationship where she cheated, and once because i'd been single and fucking about a lot for 2 years solid and thought I should probably get checked again)
(bblgoose, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 13:39, closed)

Ditto
Went to the doctor about a year ago for a pulled muscle I wanted to check wasn't a hernia. They told me I had to change GPs as I'd moved out of their catchment area. I moved 17 years ago.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 15:02, closed)

aye, true enough
But the 'average' also takes into consideration public sector workers or those with 'lower back pain' or some other 'illness' meaning they have to pester the doctor so that they don't have to get out of bed in the morning.

Like many blokes I too only generally go in to get stitches out or casts off.
( zacherynuk @echo off, Thu 31 Dec 2009, 15:27, closed)