• Entropywins@kbin.social
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          11 months ago

          To me it looks like that wife has a very emotional husband and she’s like make it stop please…

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          11 months ago

          Never said it had to be that way, but that’s typically how these boomer memes go.

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            11 months ago

            Remember - with age comes experience. I’m not a boomer, but don’t discount them just because they’re older.

            It used to be the elders were the ones who helped us navigate the pitfalls they didn’t Escape.

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              You’re assuming a lot. I don’t have a problem with age itself or old people, nor do I discount their experiences. What I have a problem with is them bringing antiquated ideals like “wife bad” with them. We can take useful knowledge from the past forward but leave the toxic garbage behind.

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                11 months ago

                I agree with you 100% but in the interest of trying to contribute to lemmy more, I’ll make this comment: I didn’t even get a “wife bad” vibe from this meme, personally, until I saw your comment. So it’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy scenario here, for me.

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                11 months ago

                Yeah, I get that. There are bad apples in both genders. The problem is that the court system appears to assume things that puts men at a significant disadvantage in outcomes when marriages don’t work.

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    11 months ago

    This looks like a picture from around 1930, right after the stock crash. The man just lost all his money. The woman, she’s in shock.

    He’s probably despairing from the abject failure of his ability to support his family.

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      Then the message is right, if he was single he wouldn’t have to worry about supporting a family.

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        11 months ago

        No, he’d be in the same state, as he can’t support himself anymore, and possibly worse because he does not have someone to help him and/or give comfort.

        She’d be in the same state because she would be married to someone else who had similar problems, or worse if she were a spinster. Back then, women didn’t have a lot of options to support themselves.

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    My wife snores like a Sicilian mason, but only when I lay beside her, strangely. So, I’m wandering between the sofa and the bed in the night. But that’s nothing compared to the condition I’d be in without her. Probably dead. (I’m not exaggerating)

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    Yes, because the problems only singles have are solved by being in a relationship…So the only problems left are the ones that come from the relationship. Deep, innit?