Men With a Mild Fever – Arcade Rage

Research indicates male and female immune systems respond differently to viral attacks.
“Man Flu” might actually be physiological and not psychological.
- "in mice"
  humans not mentioned once in the entire paper
  Yeah no.
  EDIT: Okay, maybe. I'm not a biologist. Mice and human may be more alike than different for all that I know.
  
  There is a good reason we use lab rats and mice to test drugs for humans
  
  Human and mice immune systems are very similar where they are not identical.
  
  There's a while book on this topic: Of Mice and Men. Probably.
- Doubt it

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
- 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.
  
  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

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
- Testicular torsion is no joke. If they get tangled even the manliest of men can be in for a very rough time.
  
  Even the Guild of Calamitous Intent recognizes this.
  
  Easily the worst pain I've ever experienced, with no close comparison. Broken bones, bicycle accidents, road rash, surgery, sprains, flu, covid, I don't care. Torsion felt like death
  When I went to the hospital, I was acting normal, because yeah. Trying not to overreact and stay calm. They made me wait in the ER for a few hours until I finally told the nurse how bad my pain was. She didn't believe me, then took my blood pressure. Once she saw how high it was, she immediately audibly gasped, and immediately sent me to see a doctor, where I received immediate surgery to save my testicle.
  No one believed how bad my pain was until I said to the nurse "I think I'm dying can you please do something" simply because I wasn't "exhibiting symptoms" badly enough. This shit is absolutely real.
- 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
  
  why tho
  
  This can't be good for you lol
- Yeah, but......there's like a whole fetish out there where guys get kicked in the balls by women wearing steel plated boots. And they're like "yeeeeaaaahhhhh, that's the stuff!"

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
- Getting sick almost always hit me like a truck and I have a funny story about it.
  Oh god......he's about to tell a story that ends with him shitting his pants.....
  doesn't tell a story about poop
  Huh. That went better than I thought. I mean, not for OP living it. But certainly for me reading it.
  
  and then I shat my pants all over in the hospital !

I can handle physical pain because i still have energy and can work around the pain but sickness pain/discomfort is so hard to deal with. I'm tired I can't do anything I just lay down and hope for death.

Accurate. Source: am asshole in comic

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

As a man who has "sucked it up" most of my life, getting sick with "just a cold" twice ended with pneumonia and a stay in the hospital. Any CT of my lungs shows the damage that ain't ever growing back. I take illness a bit more seriously now.

Ah, the great misandrist paradox. Men are both too wrapped up in their fragile male ego to take care of themselves when they need to, and also secretly whiney babies about the smallest inconvenience to their health. Either way they shouldn't be taken seriously.

I feel personally attacked. This is me right now at the moment.
I hate congestion and coughs, but I can deal with them, but once I get a fever, it's like my will to live has been taken away.
The worst is when it starts as a nasal drip, them slowly migrates to the lungs. Then I'm coughing up phlegm for at least a week.
Add on to that, how strong NyQuil affects my brain, it can be weirdly "out of body-ish' for me.
(Does it take days for the side effects of NyQuil) Cough suppressants to wear off any of y'all too?)
- Yes! I am a bit out of it and my vision feels kinda lazy for like 48 hours after NyQuil.

You know, I remember a picture with this exact joke, with these very words from waaaay back when "rage face" comics were popular, so about fifteen years ago

I've heard of this "man flu" syndrome but it doesn't match with my experience. I think the last time I had an illness that laid me out was pneumonia when i was a kid. And I've always been curious why that might be 🤔

I love when misogyny goes one way...
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.