• Red_October@piefed.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      9 hours ago

      There is no real life situation where the proper response to a person crying in your presence who claims they have it bad is “I have it worse”

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      2 days ago

      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.

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        7 hours ago

        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.

      • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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        … it is that “toxic” mental health that the author is trying to emphasize needs to be met.

        both issues are valid. but shorthair‘s mental health problem is what’s being highlighted.

        It’s precisely shorthair’s dismissal that needs to be intervened.

        there maybe some underlying ASPD that needs to be resolved.