You merely adopted the dark,I was born in it

[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.

[dankofamerica@reddthat.com]

Unity drives clicks. We are in the age of unification. Nothing is "us vs them" and no one is ever fighting. It's so refreshing.

Gotcha! Now you're part of the problem. It's your fault!!

[xanthrax@lemmy.world]

That's the tapeworm

[rooty@lemmy.world]

I don't know which is worse, the woman treating periods like they're some feminine mystery that the male mind simply cannot wrap itself around, or the guy bragging about his untreated depression.

[recklessengagement@lemmy.world]

This comes across as incredibly emotionally immature.

[poplargrove@lemmy.world]

The world will never know my pain...

[gladiusb@lemmy.world]

It's a joke? It's even in a comic from.

Like women don't bash men for how they act when they "have a fever" and it gets the six million likes.

It's meant to just be silly and funny and dark all at the same time. It seems even less mature to gaslight someone for just taking the time to actually relate.