You merely adopted the dark,I was born in it

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

So you're allowed to criticized fictional characters, but I'm not allowed to criticize your fictional criticisms?

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

No it's not. if we're talking about the fake circumstance of the comic as being a reality, then shouldn't it be up to the woman to say that line of conversation or action is uncomfortable? We're all individuals right?

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

Wow. You found relevance on the internet because you can't find it in your personal offline life.

[yamper@lemmy.world]

this sub is just as unfunny as /r/comics and nearly as misogynist

[forrgott@lemm.ee]

Umm...what? It took you this long to come up with a reply, and this is the best you got? Seriously??

I'm not sure if this is funny or just fucking sad...

[can@sh.itjust.works]

no one should be keeping a condom in their wallet. It reduces effectiveness.

Not the point of your tirade, but for anyone else misguided enough to read this far.

[catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works]

Don't wear yourself out with those mental gymnastics. We don't need an entire essay mansplaining your thought process. I'm glad your intentions are pure but the fact remains. You are being bigoted so just stop. Don't tell us why it's ok for you to say bigoted things because you mean something different in your head. Just stop saying them.

[i_has_a_hat@lemmy.world]

In this comic, a man is open with his feelings and reveals that he's been hiding a crippling depression that has become a facet of daily life. Something a large portion of men quietly struggle with as society frowns on men showing or expressing negative emotions.

In this comment thread, people shit on the comic for the guy not being more sympathetic to the woman.

[feathercrown@lemmy.world]

I mean, it's a dick move to bring it up in response to her complaint. But yeah

[sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

men: suffering long and silently from generations of stifling social expectations and exploitation

also men: how can I make this into a competition as well?

[thassodar@lemm.ee]

Passing an egg, though...

[yamper@lemmy.world]

in this comic a man is selfishly minimizing his partner's pain, turning the relationship into an unhealthy pain contest.

there are ways to express male emotion without being an asshole about it.

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

Fuck off

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

Oh sorry. My personal life is more important than your opinion. Sorry if you've been told otherwise

[catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works]

Yikes bud

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

Can you explain how this is misoginy? Besides it trivializong periods for the sake of the joke, I don't see the hatred behind it.

[juice@midwest.social]

Its like saying all lives matter, kind of. I don't think this strip is misogynist, but there should be more to it. "I'm sad all the time" is different than the very real physical pain that women experience during their periods, the general problems women have even *getting" high quality reproductive care.

If the man had said, I'm really sad right now, and she was like, "yeah well I'm on my period," and then the comic would still be about insensitivity, in this case the subject is the dismal state of mental health care.

In fact that's what this comic is about...poor access to reproductive care and poor access to mental health care. They clearly both need help and aren't getting it from our capitalist healthcare system

[asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world]

Isn't the woman prompting this by saying "you don't understand"? To me that comes off like "you have it way better than me", which == immediately invalidating anything the man how's through.

Obviously doesn't mean he should have said what he did though.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

In other news an area man was killed by his wife. Police are mystified as to the reason.

[earthshiptechintern@lemm.ee]

Some men are continuously menstruating?

Sure, why not? Would explain why the guy's being such a bitch.