SATURDAY MAY 18, 2013
 
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ARE YOU A FLU BUG?
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There's no question that men and women view the world differently. In this column, TORO's Jesse Skinner and Erin Hershberg both weigh in with their respective opinions to your questions, whether tough or trivial. 

Dear He Said, She Said:

Everytime I get sick, my girlfriend acts all bitchy, as if I'm doing it on purpose.  What's going on here, I really don't get it? 

 Sincerely,

SickofYou


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I just came down from 36 hours of blasted sickness, and holy shit did having a girlfriend in the house come in handy. About halfway in, and she walks through the door with a sack of meds from Shopper’s Drug Mart, enough to raise a horse from the dead. I wouldn’t have had the wherewithal to get up and medicate myself, as the illness and daytime television had impeded my ability to properly coordinate my movements.

Women have so much experience overreacting to invisible illness, that they should be on hand when someone actually gets sick. Every hypochondriac I’ve ever known has been female, and they seem to have an instinctive knack for cutting such things off at the pass. Men, on the other hand, don’t seem to mind sitting horizontally for hours at a time with crusted drool on their chins, so your boyfriend or husband could have rheumatic fever - and you’d never know!

When you’ve determined that someone is indeed sick, it isn’t hard to find something that will knock them out cold, suppressing any discomfort or incessant complaining. Try Nyquil, or a sofa cushion.

But guys, don’t take any pampering for granted. Your weakened state leaves you vulnerable for attack, and you can’t lose that helping hand in finding where you dropped the remote.

Alright guys, you've heard it all from your women before: "Men are such babies when they're sick.I don't care about your runny nose I have real things with which to concern myself, like mentally prepping for one day having my butt-hole sliced open to give you a child, or taking out the two-weeks worth of garbage that you've left overflowing in the kitchen so the dog doesn't eat it."

Right, so back on track. I'm not sure it's fair to bust out the pain you as a woman must potentially endure at childbirth as a way of sidestepping the support you are obliged to give your partner when he has sniffles. At the same time, it's probably better than saying how you actually feel, which is that you can't stand how effeminate, lazy and unattractive he becomes.

Somehow the way men behave when they're sick becomes in the female mind a microcosm for how they deal with life, so when it all comes creeping out through their drippy noses, or vomit-filled mouths, or... somehow a switch is turned on, that says uh-oh: "My boyfriend really is a pansy. God, he is as self-centred as I thought he was. He has no ability to look after himself.  I've never, ever met a lazier man." 

Dudes if you don't want to get kicked while your down, keep away from your chick, as maternal as she may be, she ain't your mama and God willing never will be. Oh and try to pick up your dirty kleenexes. Just sayin'.


Send your questions to hesaidshesaid@toromagazine.com.

1 Comments | Add a Comment
Jesse: It's a fool's game for a man to say that a woman "should" do anything. You're telling the letter writer to dismiss his girlfriend's feelings, and that's a recipe for disaster.Erin: It's a fool's game to harbour feelings in a relationship and not express them. You actually ARE better off telling your man that he's being unattractive. That way he won't have to guess, like the letter writer. If he can't handle the truth, then you've proven that he is a big wuss and that you're better off without him.
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