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I used to find these kinds of comics funny until they started getting leveraged by our dumbest segment of the population to continually rage-bait the very worst conversations from both sides, until everyone became so horrified by what they think the opposite sex thinks and feel about each other, that we all just stopped trying to get along and date and make friends.
This lack of community and dead hope for basic things like family and healthy relationships and love and all the struggle and reward that comes from making families is what's broadly harming our society across the world.
Completely unrelated to your comment, thanks to the internet I can't read the words "both sides" without my eye twitching
No you're right, it's a horrible term that was spawned by the very people who wanted to sabotage our better world. The people who introduced the idea that there were "sides" in a "gender war" are particularly likely to be written about in our granddroid's textbooks as the scourge of our world.
We are wired to be social, to bond with others and mate and raise families and babies and love our little communities. It's not that hard it's just that we've allowed it to become so toxic and complicated because we also have over-developed internal simulators that constantly run simulations of the worst outcomes, and it makes us nervous about how others view us. Bad people have leveraged this fact to make us all hate each other and ourselves.
Engagement bait good.
Butthurt must flow: the funny is recovered when we step back to observe the flame war.