…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.
It’s gas lighting, like a lot of the posts in response. Being socialized as a man sucks. You’re both measured by your partners and expected to not need anyone or express any emotions. So basically you get shit like you described where men end up having no self esteem so they are desperate for women to validate them but they also feel smothered and confused by the completely normal and human need for emotional connection that woman have been allowed to keep.
Patriarchy is a machine that turns normal humans in to abusers, and it takes a lot of work to deprogram from this… Especially when it’s constantly being reinforced all around you (like a lot of the guys who responded).
“Women, can’t live with em, can’t live without em.”
You just rephrased this old joke.
This is a joke to get a chuckle out of the audience. You are reading 20 steps into something that is only 1 step deep.
What the fuck is a male loneliness epidemic?
Sounds like a term created by assholes because they can’t understand that people don’t like assholes.
It’s incel shit.
I feel like that’s an unfair dismissal. Loneliness doesn’t have a single source (IE lack of a female partner). People are struggling with feelings of isolation and poor mental health across the board.
This is called humour.
Relax
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?
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.
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.
