Much has been made over the delightful discovery that feminism is bad for your health. Thank God someone figured that out, because if we don’t change our ways quickly we could end up being some kind of third world hellhole, just like Sweden:
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Yes, yes, the horror.
However, we can not let this one clear danger distract us from all the other dangers. For example, did you know that not only does feminism hurt men, but so does sleeping in the same bed as those succubi that they married?
When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.
The lack of sleep also increases a man’s stress hormone levels.
According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare better because they sleep more deeply.
But there is a way for men to save themselves. By being macho, macho men.
“This masculine identity often associated with men in the armed forces and other high-risk occupations may actually encourage and quicken a man’s recovery from serious injuries,” the study stated.
It is the first research to draw correlations between masculinity and recovery from injury, challenging previous studies indicating that stalwart manliness could encourage dangerous activities — and discourage men from seeking help.
Traditional-to-the-point-of-comical gender generalizations…good for everyone!
WOW.
What got me was this, in particular:
Because it seems to me that there is a fairly obvious additional quality going, here. The soldiers and firefighters tend to be more physically fit than the average population — and soldiers also tend to be young.
Now, that might not be it. It might just be the research is full of shit. But there is this fairly obvious intervening factor (or two, if you count youth) that wasn’t mentioned in the slightest. I don’t think it surprises anyone that lean, muscular soldiers in their 20s recover from injuries faster than a chain smoking, Mountain Dew slurping desk jockey in his 40s — regardless of machismo.
And, for the record, when my wife isn’t in bed next to me, I sleep miserably.
Kyso, this is why we must put women on a pedestal. It’s for your own protection (and everyone else around you…)…
I’ve been seeing this jerkwad essay all over the feminist intertubes. Is anybody making fun of this but us, because, damn.
I really, really want to snark on this, but I do disturb my husband’s rest sometimes. He’s a light sleeper and I snore. ^^;;
Of course, we’re rarely in the bed at the same time anymore, since someone has to be at work for the late night porn customers to scream at when they’re too drunk to work the remote and need help with their pay-per-views. (Doesn’t this make you all want to run out and get a job in lower management at a call center? I bet it does!)
Most of the time, it’s the cats that disturb hubby’s sleep, in the course of doing their all-important…cat things. Essential feline business like rattling the blinds and pouncing on covered feet, dragging toys up onto the bed to play with them vigorously – the usual.
I know I disturb my boyfriend’s sleep, but it works both ways and I wouldn’t claim that I sleep “more deeply” than him in between those times he’s shoving me over and taking part of the blanket back.
Ah, yes. The old “women suck, manly men rule!” story again. Wake me when there’s a new argument.
Yeah, ’cause there’s nothing like a snoring boyfriend to help a woman get a good night’s sleep . Chris, my guy would agree with you. The last time I was on a trip, he says he fell asleep wearing my bathrobe (it’s a large men’s robe) because he missed me. He also claims he gets more sleep with me around because I give him an incentive to actually go to bed instead of falling asleep on the couch.
I thought it was common knowledge that women suffer from insomnia more than men. I definitely do not sleep more soundly when there’s someone else in the bed. Also, if my bed partner keeps a different sleep schedule and stays up later than me, I have a hard time sleeping until he comes to bed, so I get screwed over in that respect, too.
Are they kidding??? I can’t share a bed with my sister or a cat/dog (incidentally I also do not fare well with slugs in the room, but that’s an anecdote for another blog post), why on earth would it be easier because it’s teh menz instead, or indeed anyone whom I was having sex with, I love having a bed all to myself, plus “stalwart manliness”…
ROTFLMAO BWA HA HA HA HA
WTF!?
and who gives a frig if it makes men more healthy to act like jackasses, that’s their problem.
Funnily enough I’ve never heard of Sweden having had health care problems before this, I mean really, “aww diddums, you can’t opwess anywun and it’s making you all pukey, if someone waited on you hand and foot would you feel better?”
of course without people ensuring your every desire is met on demand you’ll probably get more colds and such, this is an inevitable side effect of expecting everyone to take care of you and not taking care of yourself, yes, not having unpaid servants may make you slightly more likely to get sick, the question is who cares?
as for women and sickness
“Another suggestion was that gender equality has not yet been fully achieved, and that the effects being seen are just transitional.”
gee, y’ think?
Sweden is doing very well on health care anyway, and who wouldn’t rather be a little stressed and sniffly as a feminist than ignore everything because you’ll use less Kleenex.
Sweden isn’t a place I’d care to live. You might idolize a nation that has produced such embarrassments as the Feministiskt initiativ party or the idea that men should be assessed additional taxes simply because of their gender, but that is only because you either don’t know of these things or don’t care about how deeply misandrist they are. There’s been something of a backlash against feminists and their excesses in Sweden as of late. It would seem that the men of that country, as brow beaten as they are, still have their limits as to how much man hating bile they’re willing to ingest. I really do believe that feminism – especially the more radical and angry kinds – is bad for its adherents. Basing your emotional and intellectual center around feelings of victimization, bitterness, entitlement, envy, resentment, anger and empty hate (all of which are common characteristics of any ‘career’ feminist whose work I’ve been exposed to) can’t be good for anyone. Stop morbidly reveling in your own self-constructed feelings of victimhood and self-pity and you may add years to your life and find those years much more enjoyable to boot.
Dude, dead thread is dead.
I had no idea I idolized Sweden, a nation I haven’t thought about since I wrote this post. I had just picked some pretty pictures of Sweden off of Flickr, because Sweden was mentioned prominently in the article. I hardly had to revel in self-constructed feelings of victimhood at all to do that, I just right-clicked and saved as.