The weaker sex.

taken from the Star.by : Mary Schneider (this article trully intrigued me so i decided to share it with you.especially the girls.so,enjoy it!)

TRUE FACT > A minor ailment is enough to reduce Mr Macho to a whimpering babe.


Many men morph into helpless babies when they suffer from a minor ailment.

For example,take Arnold Schwarzenegger,the Government of California and star of the hugely popular Terminator movies.Although he's a physically strong man,when he gets sick Im sure he sniffles and snuffles loudly beneath his quilt and waits for his wife Maria to bring him a comfortinfg bowl of chicken soup.
"Ach, Maria," he might say in his strong Australian accent,"I vould die vithout you.Dont ever leave me."

Maria will stroke the feverish brow of the ex-Mr universe and smile knowingly.If she wants to get a new pair of diamond earrings or have her kitchwn renovated,now is the time to ask.

When the man in your life is "dying" from the common cold or a painful boil on his bottom or a bee sting on his neck,you must milk it for all its worth.

When a usually powerful,independent man puts himself into his wife's hands and whimpers over a minor ailment,it can make her feel extremely powerful.She is likely to pander to his every whim,in a way that she never would were he healthy,because she knows that she's totally in control.

"Dont worry,my lilttle pumpkin,Mama will take good care of you,"Maria will tell Arnold,as she spoonfeeds him his soup.And the most powerful man on the west coast of the US will murmur contentedly and hand over contrrol of the state to the woman playing Florence Nightingale.

If Maria has any brains,she will authorise the state of California to conduct research into  pain alleviation interventions for women giving birth,dignified and painless mammograms,and the ability of men to give birth.

Upon recovery,Arnold will probably agree to these requests,especially the last one,ridiculous though it may sound.You see,Arnold became pregnant and gave birth to a baby in his 1994 move Junior.Never mind that the film was named the second-worst comedy ever by a popular movie critic,Arnold must have some empathy with the suffering that many women experience during childbirth to have made such a movie in the first place.Manflu as "the condition shared by the patient s life-threatening".

If you have never encountered a case of Manflu before,here is a list of symptoms,courtesy of www.manflu.org.uk:

>He cannot give you a concise breakdown of his symptoms and relies on "it hurts everywhere".
>His is a competetive ailment,so if you  point out you suffered from the same thing but struggled through and recovered,he responds "Oh,but this is much worse."
>He retreats to bed or the sofa and appears nervous at the thought of moving,especially when the word "work" or if the phrase "get it yourself" is used in anger.
>He may be found watching his daytime TV programmes or his favourite football DVD.
>Men suffering from Manflu are often unable to carry out their normal chores.If challenged,they may sigh heavily,look martyred and state,"Im ill you know".
>The patient may also pore over an A-Z guide to health problems or trawl medical sites on the internet,witha  resulting rise in the number and severity of symptoms.

The belief that a man suffers more severely than a woman does when they are both down with the same strain of flu virus,has been the focus of much research.Indeed,scientists recently claimed that men suffer from Manflu because they have weaker immune system than women that leave them more susceptible to infections.

Im just wondering if any men would be open to popping oestrogen-based pills to shore up their immune systems.Personally,I hope not.All those accompanying monthly mood swings would be too much for the average woman to bear.


me : BRILLIANT MARY!