On today’s New York Times op-ed page, there is a piece by two women that not only seeks to help men, but acknowledges that there are natural differences between the two:

In all likelihood, we’d have a better H1N1 vaccine — and more of it — if in our preparations we had accounted for the biological differences between men and women. . . .
Many clinical studies have shown that men and women differ in their responses to several viral vaccines. A recent study demonstrated that women produce as many antibodies in response to a half dose of the seasonal flu vaccine as men make in response to a full dose. Other studies have revealed similar sex differences in response to vaccines for yellow fever virus, measles, mumps and rubella, hepatitis A and B viruses and herpes simplex virus.
Whether vaccines work differently in males than in females is not known. Clearly, more research on sex-dependent immune responses is needed.

Of course, this selflessness toward the stronger sex (yes, I do just write that to get a rise out of someone on the Left who was otherwise spending the day angry at Joe Lieberman) does involve sticking him with a big needle. But still it stood out.