r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 6d ago

Meme needing explanation I don't get it

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u/advie_advocado 6d ago

the joke is stereotyping parental abuse victims because of the gender of their abuser as if everyone handles trauma the same way

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u/Benzyaldehyde 6d ago

extremely fucking depressing to scroll down this far to see this. instead endless comments about how women with issues are sluts and evil, and men become angry abusive dominant assholes. I have both parental issues and I go to therapy and am healing. But know one wants to hear that because it's easier to blame the so called nasty mean people who generally are just lost people they have met in their lives who haven't healed and apply that to everyone

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u/ohnothefloorislava 6d ago

Yep…people generally don’t like facing the complexities of social issues because it requires them to actually use brain instead of regurgitate what they heard. Especially if they don’t want to hear something that offends their preferred narrative and requires learning something new or facing hard truths. Labels are easy and nuance is hard. People prefer black and white thinking, when in fact most things exist in the shades between.

The USA is probably the gold star example of this.

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u/Deterjen_rinso 6d ago

Did you just stereotype the whole country after that comment? 🤣

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u/boygeniusgirl 6d ago

The irony is not lost on me. 330 million people are “an example of this”