It's a sick thing

SHE SAID:

One of the most fundamental differences between men and women are when they get sick. And I think the women just gave a collective knowing smile and nod at this.

A man gets sick, he's laid up in bed, can't move, every single muscle aches, and he's got to be waited on. He's dying. He needs someone to take care of him. And women oblige. The mother instinct kicks in and we are compelled to take care of our men. We fawn over them and we fix them soup and we make a fuss so that they take their medicine. Poor baby!

*coughBULLSHITcough*

A woman gets sick and she's expected to recover in less than 2 hours and for some reason, men will STEER CLEAR of a sick woman. I start sneezing or coughing or complaining of a sore throat and the subject gets changed. I'm barely able to get up and walk to the other room because my body aches and my nose is dripping the second I stand up and yet I have to make sure the kids get off to school and get the laundry done and the floor swept while I have an infant hanging off of my boob.

Do men realize that giving birth is the closest thing to death there will ever be? We get booted out of the hospital the very next day. I mean, Hello? Just pushed an entire human being out of my body using only the muscles I haven't been working AT all for the past 9 months.... Does this count for anything? Seriously?

HE SAID:

Once again we see the Hand of Judgement coming down, and once again I am going to have to slap it away.

Yes it is true. When we are sick and at home we prefer not to move, whether from the bed or the couch. Yet unless we are near death we will get up, get ready and go to work. And we will work a full day. It is a right of passage. Who can be the sickest and still perform their job. I know I have been so sick and feverish that I couldn't see straight, I couldn't stand on my own for more than 10 minutes at a time and I couldn't keep any food down. But I worked a 10 hour day at the shop. It is a beat your chest man-thing, and every man out there has a story like it. You could even go so far as to say we would never be seen as weak at work. Quite frankly if we are told to go home and get some rest the first thing we will do is argue, "I'm fine don't worry about it." No matter how badly we wanted to go back to bed.

It's kind of funny that a woman would complain about us wanting to steer clear of them when they are sick. Do they not realize how contagious and toxic they are? First in the physical sense. If you don't maintain a 6 foot working distance you will receive the bug, in two-fold strength. Second in the mental sense. A woman's short temper is cut in half by any kind of illness. Once again a man tries to do the right thing by keeping the conversation in the "safe zone" to avoid an explosion and we get demonized for it.

And of course sweetheart, just to make sure you got the trump point you ended on child birth. As men we have no argument here. If it were left up to us to give birth the population of the earth would quickly dwindle away. But if you like we could shoot ourselves in the foot each time you went into labor...