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Saw this “man cold” poster at the pharmacy counter at Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada

PapaPampush

October 12, 2017
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Title Saw this “man cold” poster at the pharmacy counter at Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada
Author

PapaPampush

Upvotes 39
Comments 22
Date October 12, 2017 4:10 AM UTC
(8 years ago)
Subreddit Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/75ulru/saw_this_man_cold_poster_at_the_pharmacy_counter/
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[–]PapaPampush 12 points13 points14 points 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Ironically I was waiting to pick up my wife’s prescription because she wasn’t feeling well enough to walk over in the cold rain.

Nice to feel belittled by the store I’m about to spend money at.

[–]theothermod 8 points9 points10 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

What does the fine print say? I wonder who is promoting this and what it's meant to achieve.

Perhaps you should complain to the management and suggest that you might take your business to a place that doesn't belittle you.

[–]ThePigmanAgain 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Fine print is gibberish. Just code numbers of some sort.

[–]Kuramo 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Well, have you thought about complaining to the owner?

[–]evil-doer 17 points18 points19 points 8 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

Where did this meme even come from? Is it true? From my experience with my family, friends, and coworkers, its women who complain more or stay home/in bed from colds if anything.

Is it simply because women expect men to not complain AT ALL that the little bit they do complain when sick, its multiplied?

[–]zero_tha_hero 5 points6 points7 points 8 years ago* (6 children) | Copy Link

Nah, some studies have in fact shown men to react more adversely than women with the same illness.

source, but google has plenty more:

http://time.com/4683864/men-sick-cold-flu/

edit: since there seems to be a majority response of butthurt and dismissal, I think it's worth noting that there's a big difference between "rights" and the reality of biology. I can not remember exactly which relevant study I was reading that presented this particular analysis, but it seemed plausible: men are more susceptible to greater symptom severity than women when affected by some viral infections because of evolutionary pressure on the virus to better increase its probably of transmission. Females who are pregnant or nursing are much more likely to transmit their infection to another host than a solitary male, therefore it follows that viruses would be under evolutionary pressure to cause less debilitating symptom presentation in hosts that are more likely to serve as a vector to new infections.

tl;dr: a virus dependant on a live host transmission vector suffer an evolutionary disadvantage if they cause greater impairment of function or mortality in female hosts. As always, were the disposable sex, even in the non-eyes of the non-living viruses infecting us :-\

[–]zulu127 4 points5 points6 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

As with all scientific studies, results do not generate facts. None of those studies clearly indicate that:

men ... react more adversely than women with the same illness

[–]zero_tha_hero 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

See above response for another study providing exactly that result.

[–]zulu127 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

I would like to see the study, not hear your recollection of it.

edit: I now saw and read the link you were referring to. Now I have some ammunition when people comment about "manflu". Thanks.

[–]ThePigmanAgain 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Yeah, like i'm going to read Time.

[–]zero_tha_hero 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Ok then, American Journal of Physiology a rigorous and reputable enough resource for your exhaustive standards?

http://ajplung.physiology.org/content/early/2015/12/17/ajplung.00398.2015.full.pdf

[–]Sasha_ -2 points-1 points0 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Any such 'study' is utter bullshit.

[–]jamminnummeruno 5 points6 points7 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

And Shoppers Drug Mart still have their "Women's Health First" plastic bag campaign. Fuck them.

[–]zulu127 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Yep, I refuse to shop there.

[–]BlindGardener 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Colds are awful. I work anyway. What choice do i have?

[–]Mythandros 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Complain about the blatant sexism to the store manager.

[–]theDukesofSwagger 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

The fuck is a “Man Cold”?

[–]jamminnummeruno 3 points4 points5 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Men generally have a lower immune system than women. When I tried to explain this to some ex-colleagues I was accused of "mansplaining".

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Pretty certain men suffer from colds worse than women.

[–]zulu127 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Pretty certain women suffer from colds worse than men. /s

[+]coffeeinvenice1 points 8 years ago [recovered] (1 child) | Copy Link

Pretty certain men suffer from Shopper's Drug Mart worse than women.

[–]PapaPampush 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

This made me chuckle

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