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...how on one hand there's a male loneliness epidemic and women are partly to blame because we're so picky - and yet on the other hand things like this.

How can we both be desperately needed for your emotional health but also be huge annoying burdens? I don't get it.

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[–] Voran 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not mad I'm genuinely just curious. I cannot help noticing how on one hand it's often men who lose their shit the hardest at the fact that I don't want kids or a husband and insist that I'll be unfulfilled to the point of sitting in a mental ward playing with poop if I don't marry and have kids.

Yet on the other... jokes like this are common.

Why do some men love to push something they hate and makes them feel trapped?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I get what you’re saying. It’s a prevailing type of “boomer humor” that has sadly trickled into the younger generations. “Take my wife, please!” and other dangerfield-ish jokes just refuse to die. I agree that it’s a sad form of humor that doesn’t do anyone any good.

There’s a great I Think You Should Leave sketch about this.

[–] blahsay -1 points 8 months ago

It's fine if you don't understand the thinking or humour. As long as everyone is having fun there's better things to stress about.