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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're all misandrists, and the feminist author of this article thinks so too
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/manthreading-mansplaining-manflu-man-im-sick-this-misandrist-nonsense-1597232

You will also fail to recognise examples of male disadvantage, like the fact that men serve as much as 100% more jail time for the same crimes as women, or that last year 75% of all UK suicides were male.

We legislate the way men sit on public transport. Men are significantly less likely to see a doctor when they're ill, and we trivialise their illness by calling it "manflu" – a paramedic even misdiagnosed a patient with meningitis last year.

We wring our hands because men don't open up and talk about their feelings, then in the same breath we refer to their masculinity, their very maleness, as "toxic" and "fragile" and write articles that are a literal attack on their free speech. What do we want from our men?[/quote]

Oh what?! No woman has EVER been misdiagnosed and told to get over it/it's all in your head. Never never never. Women having heart attacks aren't sent at home with Maalox ever. [/quote]

So how is making fun of men who want to take it easy for a day or two helping women's health problems getting taken more seriously? [/quote]

No one is talking about men who want to take it easy for a day or two. We are talking about men who are laid up on the couch unable to get their own food, clean up their own messes, or care for their own family members for nearly a week. I think that toxic masculinity is why they refuse to see a doctor (because that would be weak) and patriarchal entitlement is why they expect for their wives to just take care of everything while they're convalescing on the couch. Newsflash: if you're well enough to play GTA on the couch, you're well enough to bring yourself a snack.

My husband and I have a similar dynamic. No matter what I am sick with, his experience is always worse, and he always gets sick at the same time that I do. No one is bringing me soup and ginger ale on the couch. No one is getting food together for my office potluck. Those are things that if I want them to be done, I have to do them myself, but if he's sick, he begs and whines for me to help him because he's sooooo sick. Not so sick he feels like he should see a doctor. Not too sick to play GTA. But definitely too sick to even throw away his own snotty Kleenex.[/quote]

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