…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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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      I understand that but the whole reason the joke is funny is that it plays on the idea that women are annoying burdens.

      I just find it odd that on one hand we hear so much about male loneliness and how we’ll be unfulfilled to the point of psychological annihilation if we don’t have a man and screaming kids to clean up after…but on the other hand we’re huge annoying burdens.

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        8 months ago

        There’s a lot of people in the world and a lot of different opinions. Most men aren’t lonely, and most married men don’t view their wife as an annoying burden. The joke isn’t really that funny either to most people, it’s a pretty stupid joke even if most people will get it.