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Misogynistic drivel.
Shut the fuck up and listen. If someone says they're suffering you pay attention to their problems not make it a contest.
You do undermine your own point a bit by trivializing men's suffering in the same breath as demanding nobody trivialize suffering.
The comic is bullshit for sure but you did exactly the same thing it did.
He ignored her suffering and diminished it saying that for 5 days a month she feels what he deals with every day. He's ignoring her point and one-upping her. That's toxic behaviour that doesn't help anything.
That he is also suffering is a separate conversation that also needs to take place but that's a different conversation. The first step is resolving conflict is by listening to the other person's point of view, not dismissing it as less important.
They're both being toxic in the comic, so trying to play it as if either is more correct is being disingenuous and is a massive source of the confusion in this discussion.
… it is that “toxic” mental health that the author is trying to emphasize needs to be met.
both issues are valid. but shorthair‘s mental health problem is what's being highlighted.
It's precisely shorthair’s dismissal that needs to be intervened.
there maybe some underlying ASPD that needs to be resolved.
Cool opinion.
There is no real life situation where the proper response to a person crying in your presence who claims they have it bad is "I have it worse"
A rich teenager crying about how they're not getting the brand new car they wanted for their sweet 16.
ah okay you got me, but that does not at all make this comic not mysogynistic. There is none of that context here. I dont care about this dudes opinion
Also OP is a new account with only posts and no comments. Lots of red flags.
Did you consider that the comic is making fun of misogynists?
I had not considered that, so thanks for pointing that out. Upon checking the comic more closely, I don't get any hint that it's making fun of misogynists, but it's certainly possible.
If so, it's shockingly ineptly done though
Then explain OP's title.
It's a meme.
I refuse to believe we're living in a world where meme literally got Trump elected and people are still acting like "just a meme" is a thing. Jokes don't exist in a vacuum, meaning is inherently tied to humor and can be read from it.
Longhair: explains problem they insist short-haired can't understand
Short hair: explains he does and why, revealing deep emotional damage underneath
You: MY SOGGY KNEEEEES!
I think the issue here is that shorthair cannot know for sure what longhair is experiencing, exactly. Shorthair has experienced something that they would describe in the same way, but neither can know with certainty what the other experiences.
It is perfectly understandable to relate to others in pain by sharing your own pain with them, but it can come across as a bit dismissive sometimes, I think that's the root of the discourse here.
Unless they are a man, of course, then they should just get a therapist.
She wasn't merely saying, "I'm suffering". The comic starts with, "you don't understand". It starts with her dismissing the comiseration attempt.
This highroad is cute and all, but it's grossly ignorant to reality or the fact that there are no heroes in this comic: It is not one side being dismissed. It is both sides failing to communicate. They are both talking past each other.
Why would we listen, you just did the opposite. No empathy for those who don't show any.
Conversely, empath the fuck up and don’t push your problems on someone who also has them. Both struggles, as minor as they could be, are valid.
It's about depression you git. Does he have "all men" tattooed on his fucking forehead? It's one dude. You sound extremely hypocritical
This is how I interpreted it as well. He understands because depression makes him feel that way all the time.
So you're just ignoring the part where the woman says that the man doesn't understand? That's the whole reason why he says how he feels. He's not just saying that to undermine her struggle. He's explaining why he thinks he understands her better than she thinks.
Seems like you dragged in a load of baggage/assumptions: I just see a dark, dramatic turn of characterization without generalities.