OK, so that’s a silly headline, so is the headline for the actual article. But I just read this and thought it had some interesting ideas. While I think the hygiene hypothesis has been around and generally accepted for quite a while, it really doesn’t seem that anyone has linked it to different consequences for different individuals, depending on their gendered socialization. I certainly think it’s interesting given how common knowledge it is that women suffer auto-immune disorders more than men, but so little is understood about why. -Kim Fleming