You merely adopted the dark, I was born in it

These people both need to sit down and have some empathy for each other.

They could be growing stronger together through their struggles rather than making it some competition about who is worse off. (Which, in this case, the guy has started by not empathizing at all)

My mental health struggles in no way invalidate someone else's struggles.

I hate this kind of divisive bs.

Division drives clicks. We are in the age of division. Everything is us vs them and everyone is always fighting. It's so tiring.
- Unity drives clicks. We are in the age of unification. Nothing is "us vs them" and no one is ever fighting. It's so refreshing.
  Gotcha! Now you're part of the problem. It's your fault!!
- Everyone also thinks or assumes they know better or best. There is no acceptance of other information maybe being correct even if you present solid evidence. They'll just take you for a fool who doesn't know instead of learning anything from who might have more background or experience.
  I stopped doing anything arguments online all together because of this. (Happens irl too though but it's far less polarizing)

This just in- man struggles with basic empathy, is wildly invalidating for no real reason to a person venting their frustrations

This just in- a man speaking for women on what to be upset about
- Advocating for basic empathy is really not a thing that has to be gatekept to one gender 🤷
- Are you referring to me, or the comic? (Earnest question, the internet makes things ambiguous sometimes)

He's bleeding out of his vagina that often? He should see a doctor.

This Comic is stupid and bad. Nothing else to say.

men: suffering long and silently from generations of stifling social expectations and exploitation

this man: how can I make this into a competition as well?

This comes across as incredibly emotionally immature.

It's a joke? It's even in a comic from.
Like women don't bash men for how they act when they "have a fever" and it gets the six million likes.
It's meant to just be silly and funny and dark all at the same time. It seems even less mature to gaslight someone for just taking the time to actually relate.

People taking this stupid comic way too seriously in these comments

What is there to like about this?
- Sometimes our emotional batteries run low and we feel like mouthing off (like this guy is doing) instead of being sympathetic. Most people don't, but we can have a bit of a laugh relating to feeling like depicted in the comic. This helps us let out some of our negative emotions without anybody having to put up with them which in turn allows helps us to keep being emotionally supportive to those we care about.

I'm a little unclear on what point the author is trying to make but perhaps that's because I'm not familiar with this comic.

this sub is just as unfunny as /r/comics and nearly as misogynist

Can you explain how this is misoginy? Besides it trivializong periods for the sake of the joke, I don't see the hatred behind it.
- Its like saying all lives matter, kind of. I don't think this strip is misogynist, but there should be more to it. "I'm sad all the time" is different than the very real physical pain that women experience during their periods, the general problems women have even *getting" high quality reproductive care.
  If the man had said, I'm really sad right now, and she was like, "yeah well I'm on my period," and then the comic would still be about insensitivity, in this case the subject is the dismal state of mental health care.
  In fact that's what this comic is about...poor access to reproductive care and poor access to mental health care. They clearly both need help and aren't getting it from our capitalist healthcare system

The world will never know my pain...

I mean...

At some point you feel so shit that you stop caring about others

Or that's just me and I already know I'm emotionally fucked

Some men are continuously menstruating?

Sure, why not? Would explain why the guy's being such a bitch.

This might be better than the bear thing to explain to women how dangerous men are.

Umm, what?
The bear thing is women speaking up about how dangerous men are. As in, they already know...
Man has crippling depression that he can't treat like many men
You: "oh my gaaaawd he's so dangerous all men are this!"
- then many men have crippling depression.

In other news an area man was killed by his wife. Police are mystified as to the reason.

Depression 🌠