Men will literally menstruate 24/7 instead of going to therapy
Fake news we also have 40k lore
Dude. No need to call us out like that.
In America therapy costs a lot of money and you get no guarantee you’ll see someone competent.
Very true and I speak from experience. Still worth it to try, if you need help. I did eventually find one that helped me a lot.
So is the answer to give up or keep trying?
The answer is to fight for a healthcare system that covers all health (including mental) instead of trying to be the most effective funnel of money from the poor into the coffers of the rich.
Sadly, the people who are most lacking in mental health support are largely the ones who actively fight against such a structure (because propaganda works).
Tell me how we do that exactly? Just keep voting and hope that some kind of policy goes through and hopefully before you finally blow your brains out?
You seem to think that box #2 is the last hope. I’m not ready to give up on that one yet. But if things get so bad that the ballot box truly doesn’t matter any more, we still have two more to defend liberty with. I hope we never again need the fourth box.
Throwing your hands in the air and saying “it’s too rigged, there’s no hope” is exactly what the opps want.
I am not giving up. But just shrugging and say ‘go see a therapist’ is useless.
A lot of people really don’t get it.
Therapists cost around $100hr where I’m at. It’s the height of privilege and tone deafness to just toss out “get therapy” at every depressed fucker out there. The same people screaming for empathy seem to lack their own.
yes, because I will be extra sad if I cant afford rent.
If anyone is mentruating 24/7, I would suggest the hospital.
You’re not doing anything by saying “go to therapy.” If you really cared, pay for someone’s therapy.
Misogynistic drivel.
Woman: I’m suffering
Man: I have it worse!
Shut the fuck up and listen. If someone says they’re suffering you pay attention to their problems not make it a contest.
You do undermine your own point a bit by trivializing men’s suffering in the same breath as demanding nobody trivialize suffering.
The comic is bullshit for sure but you did exactly the same thing it did.
He ignored her suffering and diminished it saying that for 5 days a month she feels what he deals with every day. He’s ignoring her point and one-upping her. That’s toxic behaviour that doesn’t help anything.
That he is also suffering is a separate conversation that also needs to take place but that’s a different conversation. The first step is resolving conflict is by listening to the other person’s point of view, not dismissing it as less important.
They’re both being toxic in the comic, so trying to play it as if either is more correct is being disingenuous and is a massive source of the confusion in this discussion.
He ignored her suffering and diminished it
Cool opinion.
Also OP is a new account with only posts and no comments. Lots of red flags.
Did you consider that the comic is making fun of misogynists?
I had not considered that, so thanks for pointing that out. Upon checking the comic more closely, I don’t get any hint that it’s making fun of misogynists, but it’s certainly possible.
If so, it’s shockingly ineptly done though
Then explain OP’s title.
It’s a meme.
I refuse to believe we’re living in a world where meme literally got Trump elected and people are still acting like “just a meme” is a thing. Jokes don’t exist in a vacuum, meaning is inherently tied to humor and can be read from it.
She wasn’t merely saying, “I’m suffering”. The comic starts with, “you don’t understand”. It starts with her dismissing the comiseration attempt.
This highroad is cute and all, but it’s grossly ignorant to reality or the fact that there are no heroes in this comic: It is not one side being dismissed. It is both sides failing to communicate. They are both talking past each other.
Unless they are a man, of course, then they should just get a therapist.
Conversely, empath the fuck up and don’t push your problems on someone who also has them. Both struggles, as minor as they could be, are valid.
Misogynistic drivel.
Seems like you dragged in a load of baggage/assumptions: I just see a dark, dramatic turn of characterization without generalities.
So you’re just ignoring the part where the woman says that the man doesn’t understand? That’s the whole reason why he says how he feels. He’s not just saying that to undermine her struggle. He’s explaining why he thinks he understands her better than she thinks.
It’s about depression you git. Does he have “all men” tattooed on his fucking forehead? It’s one dude. You sound extremely hypocritical
This is how I interpreted it as well. He understands because depression makes him feel that way all the time.
I feel like if this was a specific character going “wait that’s not normal lol” the joke would land better. But as it is the only frame of reference we have is one representing women and one representing men.
And it just all falls flat because women can have mental illnesses too? And yes men are forced to repress it more often but women often have their physical or mental health dismissed or ignored so it’s not much better either way.
I’m trans so I’ll never face a period but I can’t imagine the agony of going through one in addition to a mental health crisis or other sickness. And it’s not like women get “period days off” of work or school so you’re just expected to push through it.
I’m grateful you will never have to deal with it, it makes me a little jealous. If you ever want to imagine what bad cramps feel like, imagine a power drill plunged into your belly, whirring at full speed. 😭
I’ve noticed that I cannot see images hosted on lemmy.zip unless I visit it manually, what could be causing this?
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Yeah, but I enabled cookies for lemmy.zip then solved the captcha and images from there still don’t show up.
That won’t help if your browser is set up to not allow websites to access third-party cookies.
I have a similar problem but different instances or file types and I also don’t understand.
some block my vpn, others don’t block it outright but i have to solve a captcha first via cloudflare
Huh, I didn’t know about this. I have no clue what could be the issue, although the captcha theory sounds reasonable. I’m sure the lemmy.zip admins would appreciate it if you let them know about this issue (unless they already do know about it (: )
Now all together: Feeling bad and being sad are things you do not compete at
One man’s trash
Not a rule, just your opinion.
*tips fedora*
Why are you all bitching women aren’t even real
If I roll 80 times on the latest gacha, I can pretend they’re real, and then they’ll immediately beg for my self-insert character to date them.
Lemmy: MISOGYNY!
Meanwhile, me, a dumdum: Damn the author has experienced critically low self-esteem…or the joke is as fun as a rock in the field.
Like, either it’s self-depreciating/edgy humor or it’s not humor at all lol.
I immediately understood it to be a description of severe depression. If a neurotypical person suddenly experiences a low from a period similar to a depressed person’s average day, why is it suddenly misogyny?
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?
you’re right, I haven’t experienced menstruation. however, your comment makes me feel like shit and makes me irritable.
Explain your attribution of misogyny. Seems weak.
He’s saying that men experience an amount of stress equivalent to menstruation on a daily basis.
Is “he”? Seems you’re overgeneralizing.
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?
lol
Anyone defending this “comic” looks like a lunatic. I can’t take anything you say seriously.
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 🤘🥰
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.
what
this is fuckin dumb
Idk i may be only 14 but im thinkin it’s pretty deep
Jeez, first the reprisal of the bear comparison with a hilarious amount of dudes feeling still it is a bad comparison because bears are so so much more dangerous, now this, what is going on with Lemmy?
I see more people speaking out against the comic than for. Just a lot of the same people repeating the for side.
Maybe because the comic itself is satisfying enough to not require further comment.
Eh even if you want to bring your own emotional problems into a discussion like this, probably a better way is to go along the lines of “I understand how you feel, I often feel that way too. I find [this method] to be very helpful when dealing with it.” bla bla, rather than turning it into a piss contest (or contunuing it if it started off like that).
Also I feel like this comic tries to speak in place of all men. I might be wrong but if indeed so, I don’t feel like that all the time. Sure I do feel like that sometimes but definitely not even every month. I got my other problems, I am not problem free, but this is not it. So if this man feels like that all the time, he should probably try to have an open hearted discussion about it with someone who can understand rather than get angry about it. And if the other person makes fun of him for that, maybe he should consider his ties with that person because there are definitely people who are more understanding.
Post needs accessibility.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
This comic sure rustled an awful lot of jimmies.
Why do you keep responding with “needs accessibility”? What, precisely, is the remedy you’re requesting on these comics? Transcripts?
There are a number of possible remedies, so I don’t specify. All that matters is the result: web accessibility. Doesn’t matter how text alternative is provided whether by
- adequately filling field Alt Text in post submission/edit forms
- setting the field URL to a source or archival snapshot that is accessible
- providing an accessible description in the field Title or Body
- beginning the field Body with a link (so it’s directly adjacent to image) to an accessible equivalent or description
or any other possibility as long as it achieves accessibility.
In general, it depends on the situation. Screenshot of social media text content: link to the source or its archival snapshot. Image of pure text: don’t post that, post text instead.
Thanks for the detail.
Probably that, I know on Mastodon people add a caption to pretty much every picture for screen readers, searching, etc.
It’s pretty convenient IME and doesn’t take much time. If that’s what they’re asking it’s a decent idea but they need to be clear.
Agreed.
- usability
