• gray@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Is this a gen z/boomer hybrid post? Like “wife bad” mixed with mental health

        • 0ops@piefed.zip
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          3 days ago

          The key word in the punchline is “schizophrenia”. It’s not a “nice guy” joke.

          • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            3 days ago

            IDK

            Yeah, it’s a joke with a “schizophrenia” punchline, as you put it, but I feel like it speaks to a yearning for connection and empathy and for love in a patriarchal system that demands the domination of man over woman, and therefore excludes the very possibility of love between a man and a woman, for true love can never exist in a dominator-dominated dynamic.

            In a way, it’s the mirror image of a “wife bad” joke, where the loveless nature of patriarchal heterosexual unions is framed as the failure of the woman, where the “schizophrenia” joke frames it as a mere unattainable dream of the man.

            • village604
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              3 days ago

              You’re reading way too much into a shitpost

              • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                3 days ago

                I think it’s fun to read way too much into stuff! Plus, what people laugh at can definitely say something deeper about what they believe :D methinks

          • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOP
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            3 days ago

            Honestly (over the counter) drugs help a lot. Plus therapy. A lot of people shy away from that shit, but yeah, both are good.

  • phar@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “is always happy and kind” is setting up an expectation impossible for her and for you. This just extends the whole manosphere bs. People are such whiners.