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[+] -13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Right, it's saying that "a good wife is impossible", aka "wife bad"

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The key word in the punchline is "schizophrenia". It's not a "nice guy" joke.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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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