Petunia, your opinions are interesting, and you have a right to express them, so I'll express the opposite. It seemed whehnever a man gets a cold, they act like they're dying. I think God made women more able to handle pain so we could carry and bear children. If a man could have a baby, he'd never do it again. When they get hurt in accidents or hunting or sports, I think they hurt as much or more than women. Women carry on doing their jobs through colds and flu, even multi-tasking to care for all the others in the house who might be sick. Men are laid out flat. One rheumatologist told me that men who have fibro or arthritis seem to suffer much more. He kidded that it was probably prevalently female (fibro) because we can bear it better than men.