These people both need to sit down and have some empathy for each other.
They could be growing stronger together through their struggles rather than making it some competition about who is worse off. (Which, in this case, the guy has started by not empathizing at all)
My mental health struggles in no way invalidate someone else's struggles.
I hate this kind of divisive bs.
Division drives clicks. We are in the age of division. Everything is us vs them and everyone is always fighting. It's so tiring.
This just in- man struggles with basic empathy, is wildly invalidating for no real reason to a person venting their frustrations
Edit: for the sake of clarity, I'm doing a bit here. I think the guy in the comic is an ass for making the other person's venting into a competition and invalidating their frustrations. I think people who do that are emotionally and interpersonally inept and it hurts the people around them
He's bleeding out of his vagina that often? He should see a doctor.
Also, this comic is sociopathic. You could say this in any situation to put anyone down. Are you feeling sick? I'm ALWAYS sick. Are you feeling sad? Well, I'm ALWAYS sad. Oh, you're painfully passing an egg, having cramps, and bleeding? Yeah, I ALWAYS eat Taco Bell.
Passing an egg, though...
This Comic is stupid and bad. Nothing else to say.
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?
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.
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 sub is just as unfunny as /r/comics and nearly as misogynist
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.
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.
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 might be better than the bear thing to explain to women how dangerous men are.
Umm, what?
The bear thing is women speaking up about how dangerous men are. As in, they already know...
