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[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Yuck. Lemmy has a misogynistic streak and this bullshit doesn't help. The account is less than a day old and I'm wondering if I should block it now or wait and see what else they post...

Edit: there's no joke here. He's saying that men experience an amount of stress equivalent to menstruation on a daily basis. And that is staggeringly pathetic. Women deal with this pain and discomfort one week a month and still manage to live fulfilling lives. Men don't have that the added physical burden and still can't achieve emotional regulation and fulfillment?

Who's the weaker sex again?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

you're right, I haven't experienced menstruation. however, your comment makes me feel like shit and makes me irritable.

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[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This comic is very obvious rage bait that is not designed to be taken seriously and you're taking it seriously. You're taking the bait.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I figured that out after my initial anger subsided. It worked on me, clearly.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He's not saying anything about men generally, YOU are.

The man in this comic is talking about himself, not men. Do you think it's not possible for a man to feel the level of stress a woman feels from her period, as his baseline due to mental health issues? If I'm a severely distressed or depressed man, there's not a world where my daily average is on par or worse than a woman on her period?

Can you put your own lived experience on any higher of a pedestal over others?

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol

Anyone defending this "comic" looks like a lunatic. I can't take anything you say seriously.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago

If thinking men can have mental health issues on par with menstrual stress makes me a lunatic, then I guess that I am a lunatic sweetie 🤘🥰

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

I find it interesting that your position is that mens lives are free from repeated stresses. Yes women have menstruation but you seem to be implying that that is the only reason for someone to be emotionally unregulated. Maybe men are just literally emotionally unstable by default. If there is a genetic predisposition for emotional dysfunction are men still evil for not being able to control their emotions? Do we know everything there is to know about the human mind or physiology? Because I don't believe we do. It is certainly interesting that there is such a mountain of evidence that men cannot control their emotions in the same manner as women but the response is always and only "suck it up" and "it's societies fault" and never "perhaps there is a deeper reason."

Additionally and more on topic, the comics talking about one dude personal experience. Why have you generalized it into being descriptive of all men. Sounds like misandry.