Thank the lord I survived. I am sure this is the cry from many a battlefield and so it is with me or rather my immune system. This has done battle with the the lurgy that invaded my body over the past few days and has prevailed. What a wonderful thing immune systems are and how we take them for granted most of the time. Well well done to mine - I've now only got 'man flu'.
What a strange phrase ' man flu'. What does it mean? More to the point what does it say about stereo types and the battle between the sexes? The reason why I ask this is because over the past few days I have watched an awful lot of day time TV (one of the best cures for all but the most malign disease as too much of it will surely rot your brain - what a snob!). Anyway, one advert stuck in my mind. It was for a cough/cold medicine which clearly said that men are wimps compared to the stoic woman folk. This may be true, it may not be true but it was an awful sexist stereo type which if the roles were reversed would no doubt, rightly, be attacked for demeaning women. It is amazing how it is okay to use a stereo type for one group but not another. Not a blinding piece of in sight but some thing that occurred to me as I was waited on by my wife!
Not going into University today mainly give myself an extra day or so to get over the lurgy. Hope the second half presentations go well
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