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Men With a Mild Fever – Arcade Rage (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 42 minutes ago

I got frequently sick because I had a shit diet. I would basically not eat enough for the kind of activities I was doing.

Getting sick almost always hit me like a truck and I have a funny story about it.

I've always been told that I'm exaggerating how sick I was by everyone in my family (hint: the women mostly. my dad always took it seriously)

and this one time I felt extremely bad and everyone was telling me oh it's nothing this that whatever, until I told my dad we had to go to the hospital.

turns out my appendix was about to rupture

suddenly after that everyone got an idea that maybe I actually can wage the pain level I'm at

and yes when I got COVID I was bedridden for 3-5 days but so was my entire family

[–] TriflingToad 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My dad used to be a pediatric (child) nurse. Any time we were sick he would be all "oh you're fine go to school I see kids way worse than that running around everyday"... untill it was him that got sick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

That's so fucked. This culture of spreading disease because you can't miss work or school is gonna get us all killed.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is so accurate for me. I'll attempt to walk off a broken bone, a mountain once stabbed my kidney and I was stoic as shit. But if I have a fever or chills? I require last rites

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is 100% me. I broke my hand (because I was an idiot and punched a wall) and just went to work and didn't use it as much. I remember one dude shaking my hand and it being very painful. My dumb ass response to my wife about why I didn't go to the hospital was "they wouldn't be able to do anything to set it and I don't want a cast, so fuck it.

I get sick and it's a different story. I need all the help and attention. I can't move. I am asking my wife to bring me tissue, trash can, soup, fluids, and meds that I might need. She takes care of me because I'm a whiny little bitch and can't function correctly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

The only difference with me is that I don't want help, either. I want to curl up in a bed, somewhere in a corner of a dark room and not see anyone. I think it's some animal part of my brain that doesn't want a potential predator finding me weak and helpless. Leave me in my cave to recover or die

[–] fartsparkles 88 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Research indicates male and female immune systems respond differently to viral attacks.

“Man Flu” might actually be physiological and not psychological.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Testicles ..... the weak point of any man, no matter how physically strong they are. Touched, exposed, or maltreated in any way, and any giant man will fold into a fetal position and whimper like a little girl. Violently struck and man will gladly go unconscious or die rather than endure this pain.

Soure: am a man with dangly sensitive bits

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Testicular torsion is no joke. If they get tangled even the manliest of men can be in for a very rough time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Even the Guild of Calamitous Intent recognizes this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

you can actually build a tolerance to it to where you dont feel any pain

mark hoppus of blink-182 would hit himself in the nuts over and over on the tour bus so he can hit himself in the nuts without pain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

This can't be good for you lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

why tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

BDSM?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

he was bored

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

Accurate. Source: am asshole in comic

[+] [email protected] -30 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I love when misogyny goes one way...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Your comment reads like you're a chastised misogynist, angry that some misandrist is getting away with an equivalent transgression against men and that you think they should be chastised like you were.

You might not be a misogynist, it's just how it reads to me.

Misogyny is bad. Misandry is also bad. They're not opposites. Too many edge cases.

But, yeah, the comic is a bit reductive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I thought I was being poignant with sarcasm. It's part of living now and days to be aware of the patriarchy as well as many other oppressions. But when males are oppressed it's "ok" because it's true. But it's not true. It's a made up narrative by women which is just like what they have been going through.

Not all men lose their mind over being sick. And I have seen a fair amount show up to work and still do their job. It's a tone deaf non factual joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you want a /s to indicate sarcasm.

And frankly, "mysogyny going one way" doesn't really make sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I feel like the comic is pointlessly gendered but I wouldn't entirely call it reductive. I'm NB and when I broke my arm I was fine... And yet I had a mild cold like 2 weeks ago and felt like death.

I just thought it was relatable even if the gender didn't match.