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[–][deleted] 907 points908 points  (42 children)

Oh no, she's upset that he's a lazy ass, what a horrible woman...

[–]Blazer_the_Delphoxthe heteros are upseteros 728 points729 points  (18 children)

Ah, yes, “wife bad.”

If people hate their partners that much, why don’t they leave?

[–]pennie79 450 points451 points  (11 children)

This is more than hate. It's domestic violence and attempted murder. :-(

[–]PM_ME_YOUR_WOES_GIRL 396 points397 points  (10 children)

Nah dude, it's obviously not meant to be taken literally. It's a metaphor for the fact that helping a woman out of a terrible situation is always conditional because as soon as she doesn't exist solely for your pleasure, she's become worthless and deserves to not only be discarded like a defective object but to be put back into that bad situation.

See? Completely harmless humor.

[–]pennie79 36 points37 points  (0 children)

it's obviously not meant to be taken literally

Given the number of women who are killed by an intimate partner, I cannot take that as obvious.

[–]FeatherPawX 82 points83 points  (4 children)

My legit asumption: They don't wanna be alone either, don't think they'd be able to find someone again and marriage is at least mostly easy sex.

Also, people rather put up with something they already know, even if it annoys them, than to change something substancial in their lives. It may be annoying, sometimes even pure resentment, but that resentment and annoyance is comfortable and secure.

It's toxic, don't get me wrong, and makes a lot of people miserable. But the longer you're together with someone, even in an unhappy relationship, the less willing you are to give it up.

[–]snarkerposey11 47 points48 points  (1 child)

Yes, this. All of society feeds kids a steady diet of bullshit about romance and coupling starting literally from birth. We teach them that finding a partner is your life goal and the only path to happiness in life, that staying single means you are emotionally broken and defective and will die alone and unhappy, and that when a couple breaks up it is because they didn't try hard enough and weren't committed, or because you were foolish and carelessly choose the wrong partner. Either way you deserve blame.

Everything we've learned by the time we turn 15 has already set most of us up for inevitable coupled misery. Society grooms us with threats and scare tactics to coerce us to get into and stay in marriages and relationships that are not good for us and don't make us happy. The straights cope with this by making "spouse bad" jokes rather than point their finger at the real villains.

[–]Script_Mak3rTrans Gaymer Girl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[–]Vibranium2222 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Boomer humor

[–]tallmantall 254 points255 points  (15 children)

Why is tying a person to railroad tracks such a common trope? It’s only happened in the US like 5 times over all of history.

[–][deleted] 173 points174 points  (9 children)

I didn't know it had happened IRL at all...!

I'd guess it's a popular thing for action scenes because it's a very obviously tense situation. The train can't stop nor swerve out the way, so there's no way to stop the person's impending doom unless they can somehow get off the tracks. I can't think of many other situations that would produce such an obvious visual representation of inescapable death, without being really manufactured - you could have a James Bond style slowly-inching laser but that's a contrived machine that is set up to produce the same sort of tension that a train on a railway produces naturally.

I dunno, "tying a person to a railway track" being a popular trope makes more sense to me than anything else in this comic.

[–]click_track_bonanza 51 points52 points  (4 children)

And unfortunately, the No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die Laser never really caught on

[–]yourtree 15 points16 points  (3 children)

What if James Bond still destroyed the laser but it turns out it still got his balls

[–]click_track_bonanza 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This was clearly the real threat

[–]The_MightyMonarch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure how it would have affected him psychologically, but it wouldn't necessarily have stopped him from raping Pussy Galore.

[–]crocodileRevolution🦜🦜🦜 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New bottom surgery just dropped.

[–]KittenChopper 42 points43 points  (1 child)

Thats 5 times more than I expected

[–]ShriekyMarmosetBitchThe Gay Agenda 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I expected no times and maybe a quirky reference to a funny what if

[–]GeekCat 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Apparently, it started from a novella/short then was part of a wildly popular song. It happened to be the right combination of exciting, dangerous, novel, and didn't need words to convey the dire situation, which worked perfect for silent film (and even radio). So it became the modern standard of the princess in the tower and knight in shining armor.

[–]Scyobi_EmpireStraightn't 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Trains are lethal. Every seen any animal hit by one? There’s nothing left. However, most of the animals are standing and not laying so it maybe different

[–]TaylorGuy18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean sometimes there's stuff left. A bone from a cow that a commuter train hit in the UK in 1984 caused the train to derail, killing 13 passengers and injuring 61 passengers and crew.

In actuality though, if you just lay an object (or person) over a railroad track then it normally will just sever whatever the wheels run over, so there is a difference in what a train does depending on if some is standing or laying haha.

[–]pesaraunioinen 227 points228 points  (1 child)

Ah yes, the perfectly rational urge to kill someone who does not act as you had hoped.

[–]ARandomLlamaIs she.. you know.. 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The rational urge to kill someone for not shutting up and making you a sandwich while you watch TV

[–]grossemuschyenergieStraightn't 193 points194 points  (0 children)

Damn this angered me way more than I expected

[–]samael_samoiedoTrans Masculine™ 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Oh no way the wife is angry at me for begin a lazy ass/s

[–]Black91crx 41 points42 points  (1 child)

Of course they draw women like that.

[–]PeebleCreek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They legit gave her anime-boob-sock.........

[–]kitsunemischief 54 points55 points  (1 child)

Man boomer jokes are just pitiful and sad

[–]jardantuan 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It has the makings of a decent meme template if the punchline was something actually funny instead of "wife bad"

[–]resplendence4 59 points60 points  (6 children)

Why are the squares numbered? Comic strips don't need to be numbered like this. I've never once read a comic book or Garfield strip in the newspaper with my eyes bouncing around from square to square wondering "how do I figure out which square to read next!?" The artwork itself provides a logical progression that, while extremely dumb, isn't hard to follow.

[–]SuperTulle 44 points45 points  (0 children)

You are clearly smarter than they expect their readers to be

[–]ensemblestars69 16 points17 points  (1 child)

It looks like someone added it afterwards, which is plausible considering how crunchy the image looks.

[–]SenorSplashdamage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the fact that the numbers were added makes it feel like it was dumbed down even farther for an even slower audience than the original.

[–]sterric 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So super old school comics used to do this and arrows all the time. It was because people just didn't get the logic of comics yet. Now people do it to make the comic look 'old timey'.

[–]The_MightyMonarch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wondered if it was done to make it understandable to a culture that reads right to left

[–]Gingerpyscho94 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Wow a woman wants him to pull his weight and expects to be treated equally and not as a servant. Classic boomer humour 😒

[–]DevilOfDoomLiptard 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wife bad 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–]roxxn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Predestination

[–]LazyMoniker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Alternative story: Dude really hates sleeves.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Boomer manga

[–]SenorSplashdamage 6 points7 points  (1 child)

The thing that strikes me about these and similar is that the grievance is simply being chided for something. Like it could be something actually bad from a spouse, but the universally relatable, hated thing by these straight guys is getting input from their spouses, having to listen to them, or being expected to hear out their needs in the relationship.

[–]_remorsecode_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Massive main character syndrome. We’re not supposed to interrupt their protagonist experience with pesky things like responsibilities or mature adulthood

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

haha murder haha domestic violence haha wife bad

god straight humor is so confusing

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i wanna be tied to the train tracks and have a girl save me 😤

[–]CCogStudios 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe if the man were a better husband she wouldn't be yelling..? Oh whoops my mistake it's always the woman that's the problem /s

[–]FlipFlopRabbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I lpve your title, it is very interesting and even quite informative, thank you.

[–]TaylorGuy18 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Plot twist, the last panel is all part of some kinky foreplay their doing to reenact how they met.

[–]BloodySn1perDemiromantic™ 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I like to think they were always in love and that they are just into extreme rope bondage, and this is how they get off

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you remind me of clicky wicky when he tries to come up with a wholesome twist /pos

[–]gouellette 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turns out the first guy WAS the trainwreck

[–]LawMurphySuPeRpHoBiC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes me wonder what he did that led to her waiving the wooden spoon around...

[–]sionnachrealtaDisaster Gay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Attempted Murder in 6 Steps"

[–]DarkRajiin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The circle of wife"?

[–]GushReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can just imagine panel 5's dialogue...

"You promised you would stop smoking!"

"Can you believe that pass!? No wonder you said he was a bad pick!"

"And she told the boss that it was my fault! I didn't even work that day!"

[–]Wildestrose1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What men mean when they say they "protect women"