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.
0ops@piefed.zip 3 days ago
I think you’re supposed to read it as “wife nonexistent”
restingOface@quokk.au 3 days ago
Right, it’s saying that “a good wife is impossible”, aka “wife bad”
0ops@piefed.zip 3 days ago
The key word in the punchline is “schizophrenia”. It’s not a “nice guy” joke.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 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.
Zikeji@programming.dev 3 days ago
If you’re reading it that way that says more about you than this post.
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Spouse ALWAYS those things? No shot we all human fam. Happiness comes in waves, keep taking them pills.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Honestly (over the counter) drugs help a lot. Plus therapy. A lot of people shy away from that shit, but yeah, both are good.