The world will never know my pain...
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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This comes across as incredibly emotionally immature.
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.
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.
Some men are continuously menstruating?
Sure, why not? Would explain why the guy's being such a bitch.
In other news an area man was killed by his wife. Police are mystified as to the reason.
men: suffering long and silently from generations of stifling social expectations and exploitation
this man: how can I make this into a competition as well?
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.
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.
I mean, it's a dick move to bring it up in response to her complaint. But yeah
this sub is just as unfunny as /r/comics and nearly as misogynist
Can you explain how this is misogynist? Besides it trivializing periods for the sake of the joke, I don't see the hatred behind it.
E: Fixed spelling aneurysm.
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
I mean...
At some point you feel so shit that you stop caring about others
Or that's just me and I already know I'm emotionally fucked
Depression 🌠
This Comic is stupid and bad. Nothing else to say.
I'm a little unclear on what point the author is trying to make but perhaps that's because I'm not familiar with this comic.
Edit: tbh I think I agree with the sentiment that this is just a shit comic. If there's any worthwhile message it's very poorly expressed.
People taking this stupid comic way too seriously in these comments
What is there to like about this?
Sometimes our emotional batteries run low and we feel like mouthing off (like this guy is doing) instead of being sympathetic. Most people don't, but we can have a bit of a laugh relating to feeling like depicted in the comic. This helps us let out some of our negative emotions without anybody having to put up with them which in turn allows helps us to keep being emotionally supportive to those we care about.
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