Women are often baffled by how men lean on humor, especially dark humor, when life gets rough.
What they don’t get is that for us, humor is armor.
When life kicks us in the nads, we don’t cry in public.
We don’t write long “woe is me” Facebook posts.
We don’t sit in our cars bawling for TikTok likes.
And we definitely don’t get a round of sympathy cocktails with the boys.
What do we do? We crack jokes. Jokes about being broke. About stress. About women. About work.
It’s not “emotional immaturity.” It’s survival, and it's naturally ingrained in us.
Humor is often the only pressure valve men are allowed, and even that door is closing.
Here’s the hypocrisy: society takes men’s humor, builds billion-dollar industries on male comedians, and then calls us “toxic” for jokes that aren’t wrapped in bubble wrap.
We’re told we’re “not taking things seriously,” because apparently the only way to “process emotions” now is a meltdown in your car or crying while putting on makeup.
The double standard is clear: men are supposed to laugh at ourselves, but the second our humor makes someone else uncomfortable, it’s “problematic.”
👉 So let’s talk: What’s the funniest coping joke you’ve ever made that only another man would understand?
Or what was the darkest moment you survived by turning it into a joke?
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Women are often baffled by how men lean on humor, especially dark humor, when life gets rough.
What they don’t get is that for us, humor is armor.
When life kicks us in the nads, we don’t cry in public.
We don’t write long “woe is me” Facebook posts.
We don’t sit in our cars bawling for TikTok likes.
And we definitely don’t get a round of sympathy cocktails with the boys.
What do we do? We crack jokes.
Jokes about being broke. About stress. About women. About work.
It’s not “emotional immaturity.” It’s survival, and it's naturally ingrained in us.
Humor is often the only pressure valve men are allowed, and even that door is closing.
Here’s the hypocrisy: society takes men’s humor, builds billion-dollar industries on male comedians, and then calls us “toxic” for jokes that aren’t wrapped in bubble wrap.
We’re told we’re “not taking things seriously,” because apparently the only way to “process emotions” now is a meltdown in your car or crying while putting on makeup.
The double standard is clear: men are supposed to laugh at ourselves, but the second our humor makes someone else uncomfortable, it’s “problematic.”
👉 So let’s talk: What’s the funniest coping joke you’ve ever made that only another man would understand?
Or what was the darkest moment you survived by turning it into a joke?
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