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Man flu is real! Redemption at last!

For years, men who otherwise consider themselves tough have been reduced to anguished wimps by the very slightest of colds. Men have, for years, referred to this condition as the flu. Women, who are inexplicably capable of performing almost normally with colds and flus, have cruelly renamed this cold that feels to men like flu: man flu. Well, at long last, there's reason to suspect that the very wimpiest of man flu sufferers may be the best catches. I (the present author, a male) would like to add that I have a sniffle and a bit of a headache right…