• 0ops@piefed.zip
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    8 days ago

    The key word in the punchline is “schizophrenia”. It’s not a “nice guy” joke.

    • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      IDK

      Yeah, it’s a joke with a “schizophrenia” punchline, as you put it, but I feel like it speaks to a yearning for connection and empathy and for love in a patriarchal system that demands the domination of man over woman, and therefore excludes the very possibility of love between a man and a woman, for true love can never exist in a dominator-dominated dynamic.

      In a way, it’s the mirror image of a “wife bad” joke, where the loveless nature of patriarchal heterosexual unions is framed as the failure of the woman, where the “schizophrenia” joke frames it as a mere unattainable dream of the man.

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          8 days ago

          I think it’s fun to read way too much into stuff! Plus, what people laugh at can definitely say something deeper about what they believe :D methinks