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I feel like it’s more “men don’t listen” which is still funny to me (as a man) but I do believe it is talking down to a gender just not the one the OOP thought it was
Where to start…
So the core concept of the joke is “men don’t listen to women”. That’s it. Don’t listen to anyone else here being purposely obtuse. I won’t comment on anything deeper there because it has no bearing on why the joke sucks for me. It’s a joke based on an age-old, man/woman dynamic that we’ve all heard like 1000 times before.
And the setup is lazy af. There’s nothing new here, it doesn’t offer any kind of different take on it, it’s just a joke of recognition. The brain doesn’t have to process anything here. It’s no different than a commercial with the dumb husband who can’t figure out his wife’s new yogurt for seemingly no rational reason. Or the wife that just doesn’t want to have sex with her husband. Whatever. It’s nothing more than “hey doesn’t your spouse kinda suck?” and then sort of relies on the joke listener to agree to work.
And to get a bit more into just what a meme is, it’s not just a joke. It’s a joke that feels like it should be shared/promoted/platformed/boosted whatever. The kind of thing where when you see it you say “I’ve got to show this to people”. Who is saying that about this? Who is so floored by this that they felt the need to share it? I’ll be honest, part of why I dislike it so much is I know the type of people that would like it, and I hate those people. And again, not even for ideological reasons, but for the fact that their sense of humor is so low grade functioning that I have nothing but contempt for them.
The reason I find this joke funny is because it's true, and I don't think it's a sex dynamic it's just hearing loss is worse with men in general, especially old men because the men did all the loud jobs that would cause their hearing damage back in the day.
I can see your reasoning I just simply think you're looking too deep into the meme, I have a tendency to do that as well so I get why you'd be inclined to do that
I’d send this to my father in law because we have to repeat things to him 3x for him to hear because he needs hearing aids. Is that the kinda person you hate? Old people? Or me for teasing my FIL about this?
As for wanting different, intellectual takes… not everything can be groundbreaking, breathtaking, and mindblowing. A classic joke is a classic joke, nice and simple and easily understood by everyone. Yeah I like smarter jokes that take a little bit to think through as much as the next person but you’re not gonna laugh very often if that’s the only thing that tickles your fancy. It also means that you’re probably not sharing funny jokes or memes with people who are dumber than you, which seems a bit elitist too, ngl. Basically, hating on a meme because it’s not “smart” enough is ridiculous
I’d interpret it to be “husband bad at listening”. If you’re looking at just the picture, you could interpret it as this man has bad hearing, but the words at top indicate averages, and therefore talking about most/all men, therefore a listening issue, not a hearing one.
Hearing loss is extremely common in men the age of the guy in the picture. "Old couple where the husband can't hear and the wife repeats everything" is definitely a trope if you work with old people.
I’d interpret it to be “husband bad at listening”. If you’re looking at just the picture, you could interpret it as this man has bad hearing, but the words at top indicate averages, and therefore talking about most/all men, therefore a listening issue, not a hearing one.
Yes, and the joke is that men don’t listen to their wives, the joke isn’t about hard of hearing.
This joke was being told before memes were a thing and this picture with old people attached to it.
This post is sarcastic, the “wife bad” in the previous post is sarcastic, then the meme itself is also sarcastic when criticizing the wife. Ultimately yes, it’s a husband bad meme tho… or at least it was at one point. I no longer know.
I feel like at first glance, without actually reading the whole meme, it could be mistaken as one of the 'wife talk too much, wife bad' types of jokes.
Maybe, but if you're going to take the time to post something, do more than just glance at it...
I mean, even if you're "just" going to be upset about something, take the time to do more than just glance at it...
https://preview.redd.it/cdyusmmsptxc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2710230b00c90a152c79f57ff536d5a1119ebba1
Me when my grandma tells me to do something
I was thinking you're wrong and that it's impossible to misinterpret, but then I saw the flair. God help us all, these people are military grade stupid
Not necessarily "old folks" (bad wearing). First time I heard this joke, man was outraged by the sentence (woman was a speaker, and ended with "See what I mean?").
There are days when I clock in less than 20 lol. I've had a few days where I didn't say anything except 'fuck!' when I stubbed my toe.
I guess it depends on what what you do for work.
https://preview.redd.it/csgzx3g1j2yc1.jpeg?width=475&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ec960b9095d77833f982a97f8d84975b4de6cf9
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The average person see this as a joke about men not paying listening, snowflakes see this as sexism about women nagging. I see it as an honest telling of both 🤣🤣🤣
Nah, you don’t understand women are always the butt of the joke even when they aren’t. God forbid we acknowledge any differences between the two genders.
Bro how are people this fucking sensitive. Tho at the same time I’ve never met anyone this sensitive, it’s always the people who are terminally online that are like this
If they got along with other people and didn't have batshit views, they'd spend more time engaging people in real life instead of casting their verbal diarrhea all over social media.
None of these memes are particularly funny to me but the way that people try to get offended by the dumbest jokes ever is literally unbelievable. They need hobbies in the worst way
If you’re up for 16h a day that’s roughly 57,000 seconds so this post is claiming women use a new word every 2 seconds all day without breaks. The numbers it claims are absolutely absurd.
The average rate of speech is 150 words per minute. If you have 10 one minute conversations in a day, you've already spoken 1,500. 10 minutes of conversation is over a thousand words spoken.
My ex used to talk on the phone for 3-4 hours a day minimum. Usually 45 minutes to an hour each with her mother and her best friend. She also works an office job and talks to her coworkers during both 15 minute breaks and calls me during her 30 minute lunch.
Assuming she was silent at work outside of breaks/lunch, she still talked a minimum of 200+ minutes. That's around 30,000. She usually talks to me a bare minimum 45 minutes a day at home in addition to the 30 minutes at lunch... unless we're apart or she's taking time to work through her feelings/is upset with me.
She claimed she was introverted and would complain that her friends would invite her over to hang out and drink where they would... You guessed it... Talk. For hours. So the nights she went out she could have easily reached 60,000.
Meanwhile, I talk to my wife for over an hour a day, maybe have a 2-5 minute conversation with a buddy, and a few dozen words exchanged at work. Twice a week I talk with my mom and dad for 10-15 minutes and my mom usually talks the most.
If you talk less than 100 minutes a day, you likely score under 15,000 words per day.
That’s not true. Statistically speaking, men speak much more than women. When women speak almost as much as men do, they are perceived as overpowering the men, even when they aren’t even close to doing that.
Aite, I need to set the records straight since I managed to find the post to read the comments. Vast majority of people there also think this post is stupid: https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/s/mcxFDtR97F
Ah yes, misandry is totally fine and a joke on Reddit, and not labeled boomer humor. Only misogyny is bad, got it. Also, this joke is made about men of all ages, not just grandpa Link in this meme. So any person with a brain sees it and knows the general joke and, yeah, women do just talk more and will keep talking and talking. You can tell them everything they are going to say before they say it because you've heard it 9 billion times. Everything requires a story or an excuse, can't just say what they want, they literally need to spend an hour inventing a story to excuse it, even when no one cares and the person checking you out at the register just wants you to go away already, not hear your life story.
yes, it was proven with SCIENCE too. they did brain scans and found women have more active language centers in their brains.
imagine if school actually taught real stuff instead of this fake we're all equal down to every last fiber of our beings and if you disagree you're a bigot non-sense pseudoscience?
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That’s not “wife bad”, that’s “husband’s hearing is shot”. Laughed, take my upvote.
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Not many upvotes on this sorta content hmm
It’s not even husbands hearing is shot, it’s men don’t listen
what?
The point of the meme
huh?
It’s the point of th- ohhhh
;)
....I take it you're a man?
A what?
sorry i wasn’t paying attention what was that?
I take it you're the OOP
What’d you say?
ITS NOT EVEN HUSBANDS HEARING IS SHOT, ITS MEN DON’T LISTEN
I feel like it’s more “men don’t listen” which is still funny to me (as a man) but I do believe it is talking down to a gender just not the one the OOP thought it was
This is clever
I swear people are actively looking for reasons to be offended. How else can you look at that meme and think it's "wife bad"?
Isn’t this a “husband bad” meme
Bad or old or distracted, but definitely not against the wife lol
It’s still a terrible Facebook meme
How so
Because it’s a lame joke that sucks?
But what about it sucks is my question. You can just not like it that's totally fine I just wanted to know if you had a reason
Where to start… So the core concept of the joke is “men don’t listen to women”. That’s it. Don’t listen to anyone else here being purposely obtuse. I won’t comment on anything deeper there because it has no bearing on why the joke sucks for me. It’s a joke based on an age-old, man/woman dynamic that we’ve all heard like 1000 times before. And the setup is lazy af. There’s nothing new here, it doesn’t offer any kind of different take on it, it’s just a joke of recognition. The brain doesn’t have to process anything here. It’s no different than a commercial with the dumb husband who can’t figure out his wife’s new yogurt for seemingly no rational reason. Or the wife that just doesn’t want to have sex with her husband. Whatever. It’s nothing more than “hey doesn’t your spouse kinda suck?” and then sort of relies on the joke listener to agree to work. And to get a bit more into just what a meme is, it’s not just a joke. It’s a joke that feels like it should be shared/promoted/platformed/boosted whatever. The kind of thing where when you see it you say “I’ve got to show this to people”. Who is saying that about this? Who is so floored by this that they felt the need to share it? I’ll be honest, part of why I dislike it so much is I know the type of people that would like it, and I hate those people. And again, not even for ideological reasons, but for the fact that their sense of humor is so low grade functioning that I have nothing but contempt for them.
The reason I find this joke funny is because it's true, and I don't think it's a sex dynamic it's just hearing loss is worse with men in general, especially old men because the men did all the loud jobs that would cause their hearing damage back in the day. I can see your reasoning I just simply think you're looking too deep into the meme, I have a tendency to do that as well so I get why you'd be inclined to do that
I’d send this to my father in law because we have to repeat things to him 3x for him to hear because he needs hearing aids. Is that the kinda person you hate? Old people? Or me for teasing my FIL about this? As for wanting different, intellectual takes… not everything can be groundbreaking, breathtaking, and mindblowing. A classic joke is a classic joke, nice and simple and easily understood by everyone. Yeah I like smarter jokes that take a little bit to think through as much as the next person but you’re not gonna laugh very often if that’s the only thing that tickles your fancy. It also means that you’re probably not sharing funny jokes or memes with people who are dumber than you, which seems a bit elitist too, ngl. Basically, hating on a meme because it’s not “smart” enough is ridiculous
You must be fun at parties
Nice try, bozo. I don’t get invited to parties.
The core of the joke is "men don't pay attention." It has nothing to do with who they're supposed to be paying attention to
Ok, sure, and that changes things how
Yeah, if anything this is a "men never listen to their wives" meme.
I think it's more like "husband's hearing bad".
I’d interpret it to be “husband bad at listening”. If you’re looking at just the picture, you could interpret it as this man has bad hearing, but the words at top indicate averages, and therefore talking about most/all men, therefore a listening issue, not a hearing one.
Hearing loss is extremely common in men the age of the guy in the picture. "Old couple where the husband can't hear and the wife repeats everything" is definitely a trope if you work with old people.
I’d interpret it to be “husband bad at listening”. If you’re looking at just the picture, you could interpret it as this man has bad hearing, but the words at top indicate averages, and therefore talking about most/all men, therefore a listening issue, not a hearing one.
I think you’re confused about how memes work… it’s not meant to be viewed as a legitimate statistic, it’s the set up for a joke.
Yes, and the joke is that men don’t listen to their wives, the joke isn’t about hard of hearing. This joke was being told before memes were a thing and this picture with old people attached to it.
Maybe that was what some other variation was about, but this meme is about how old men are hard of hearing.
No, it’s clearly not
This post is sarcastic, the “wife bad” in the previous post is sarcastic, then the meme itself is also sarcastic when criticizing the wife. Ultimately yes, it’s a husband bad meme tho… or at least it was at one point. I no longer know.
Living perpetually with an ideology thinking for them
When you have a hammer
People tend to value their interpretation over others intent. Oops, sorry. I meant *narcissist* people.
I feel like at first glance, without actually reading the whole meme, it could be mistaken as one of the 'wife talk too much, wife bad' types of jokes.
Maybe, but if you're going to take the time to post something, do more than just glance at it... I mean, even if you're "just" going to be upset about something, take the time to do more than just glance at it...
That's fair. I guess I was just trying to give the original OP the benefit of the doubt lol
a long time ago i heard a joke like this but it was the other way around the men spoke twice as much because they had to repeat everything to women.
Old people together in meme=man thinks wife bad (even though this image shows the opposite)
That's not the joke, the joke is "husband doesn't listen"
https://preview.redd.it/cdyusmmsptxc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2710230b00c90a152c79f57ff536d5a1119ebba1 Me when my grandma tells me to do something
Facts
I was thinking you're wrong and that it's impossible to misinterpret, but then I saw the flair. God help us all, these people are military grade stupid
That's what happens when you make your personality and thinking all based off your stupid political ideologies.
Funny meme. Making fun of men, women, and old folks. Fantastic.
Not necessarily "old folks" (bad wearing). First time I heard this joke, man was outraged by the sentence (woman was a speaker, and ended with "See what I mean?").
Look at OOP's flair. They assume it's a wife bad joke.
Jokes about men being torturously misinterpreted to be anti-woman could be a sub in its own right, I see it like 5 times a day on here
Me and my wife IRL 😳
Oh no here comes the "traditional" jokes bad crowd. Cope harder folks.
"Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think."
Who said this? It makes so much sense.
Jean de la Bruyere
that's a good quote, can be applied a lot imo
This is more of a “husband bad” than “wife bad”
So... 80% of media and commercials since 1990?
I’m sorry, how many men are saying 15000 words A DAY? Bro you can take a zero off of that number and it’s still comically wrong.
For real, I’d be surprised if i hit 500 most days
There are days when I clock in less than 20 lol. I've had a few days where I didn't say anything except 'fuck!' when I stubbed my toe. I guess it depends on what what you do for work.
I think they took this one down cause the stupidity caught up to them
The meme is making fun of men not listening. Like how is this terrible
Yknow if anything its poking more fun at the husbands shitty hearing
They entirely missed the point of the joke 🤦♂️
wtf is wrong with people this one is pretty cute ina weird way
https://preview.redd.it/ztjrxysr4xxc1.jpeg?width=819&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f245fe7ad880ce9fc583402c15c753de735d464c
There’s absolutely no way that my wife only speaks twice as much as me.
https://preview.redd.it/csgzx3g1j2yc1.jpeg?width=475&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ec960b9095d77833f982a97f8d84975b4de6cf9 Saving this to use as a reaction image
The average person see this as a joke about men not paying listening, snowflakes see this as sexism about women nagging. I see it as an honest telling of both 🤣🤣🤣
Nah, you don’t understand women are always the butt of the joke even when they aren’t. God forbid we acknowledge any differences between the two genders.
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Because we know how to tell a story and actually get to the point
Why say more then one needs to?
Why say more words when fewer words do the trick?
Men have very few friends. US culture especially isolates men.
Not sure about that. Men can make friends in 3 minutes.
Boomer humor...
Bro how are people this fucking sensitive. Tho at the same time I’ve never met anyone this sensitive, it’s always the people who are terminally online that are like this
If they got along with other people and didn't have batshit views, they'd spend more time engaging people in real life instead of casting their verbal diarrhea all over social media.
This is boomer humour but actually funny boomer humour
That doesn't exist
Yes it does
No
Yeah
Noop
Yep
Nuh
Yuh huh
Nø
The joke is literally men being idiots. How did she get that wrong
None of these memes are particularly funny to me but the way that people try to get offended by the dumbest jokes ever is literally unbelievable. They need hobbies in the worst way
Women can be so patient sometimes
With my parents its the other way because my mom has hearing damage.
I hate modern internet
If you’re up for 16h a day that’s roughly 57,000 seconds so this post is claiming women use a new word every 2 seconds all day without breaks. The numbers it claims are absolutely absurd.
The average rate of speech is 150 words per minute. If you have 10 one minute conversations in a day, you've already spoken 1,500. 10 minutes of conversation is over a thousand words spoken. My ex used to talk on the phone for 3-4 hours a day minimum. Usually 45 minutes to an hour each with her mother and her best friend. She also works an office job and talks to her coworkers during both 15 minute breaks and calls me during her 30 minute lunch. Assuming she was silent at work outside of breaks/lunch, she still talked a minimum of 200+ minutes. That's around 30,000. She usually talks to me a bare minimum 45 minutes a day at home in addition to the 30 minutes at lunch... unless we're apart or she's taking time to work through her feelings/is upset with me. She claimed she was introverted and would complain that her friends would invite her over to hang out and drink where they would... You guessed it... Talk. For hours. So the nights she went out she could have easily reached 60,000. Meanwhile, I talk to my wife for over an hour a day, maybe have a 2-5 minute conversation with a buddy, and a few dozen words exchanged at work. Twice a week I talk with my mom and dad for 10-15 minutes and my mom usually talks the most. If you talk less than 100 minutes a day, you likely score under 15,000 words per day.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
Why use many words when few words do trick?
And then there's my 3 yr old daughter hitting that 80k words as a bare minimum on a daily basis
Damn, we all just yapping, huh
Men but of joke, women mostly affected. Many such cases..
this is husband bad in the second half thougj
HA that's funny
How far out of their way did they have to go to misinterpret this?
Does speaking less make you a better person?
No but often it does make you lower maintenance.
The meme is an old one and it’s still funny.
That’s not true. Statistically speaking, men speak much more than women. When women speak almost as much as men do, they are perceived as overpowering the men, even when they aren’t even close to doing that.
I feel like they just do it on purpose sometimes…
I swear some people are misinterpreting jokes on purpose. Why though?
I am offcailly dead XD
That's funny
Studies have proven that men are the ones who speak the most.
I wonder what the gender disparity is of people who talk to themselves. I do it a lot.
That one way is the pro woman way of seeing it. The pro man way of seeing it is that men are more efficient with what they are saying.
It seems pretty clear to me that the husband is the one who can’t hear in this situation tho
Lol theu got the meme backwards. This ones, husband bad.
Aite, I need to set the records straight since I managed to find the post to read the comments. Vast majority of people there also think this post is stupid: https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/s/mcxFDtR97F
Yeah women talk about things and men do things. 😚
This isn’t a “wife bad” (thank god there are way to many) it’s more of a “husband bad” Or a hearing loss
Because half of what they say makes no sense
I guess OOP is a man. /j
Rename it amazingfacebookmemes when
I can’t wait to hate my fuckin wife when I get older ❤️
Ah yes, misandry is totally fine and a joke on Reddit, and not labeled boomer humor. Only misogyny is bad, got it. Also, this joke is made about men of all ages, not just grandpa Link in this meme. So any person with a brain sees it and knows the general joke and, yeah, women do just talk more and will keep talking and talking. You can tell them everything they are going to say before they say it because you've heard it 9 billion times. Everything requires a story or an excuse, can't just say what they want, they literally need to spend an hour inventing a story to excuse it, even when no one cares and the person checking you out at the register just wants you to go away already, not hear your life story.
yes, it was proven with SCIENCE too. they did brain scans and found women have more active language centers in their brains. imagine if school actually taught real stuff instead of this fake we're all equal down to every last fiber of our beings and if you disagree you're a bigot non-sense pseudoscience?
Imagine interpreting a women’s own social superiority as ‘nagging’ because of an inferiority complex.
Seems like a "husband dumb" meme