Nothing in this particular comic is attacking an individual though. In fact, it’s painting with too broad of a brush (as you point out), because sadly, this issue is relatively widespread. Fragile egos are most certainly a universal problem, and women are not without fault. Some of the most abhorrent people I’ve met have been women. That doesn’t change the fact that gender norms for men promote fragile egos. Messaging of "you must compete, you’re only as good as what you can provide to your family, you should never be weak is ubiquitous. When these things are challenged, or we don’t meet these societal expectations, things tend to go poorly.
Men need to work on supporting each other, being comfortable not aligning with societal expectations, understanding that it’s ok to be weak/vulnerable, and realizing that their value is existential (like all humans) and not tied to production, or some other arbitrary metric.
Nothing in this particular comic is attacking an individual though. In fact, it’s painting with too broad of a brush (as you point out), because sadly, this issue is relatively widespread. Fragile egos are most certainly a universal problem, and women are not without fault. Some of the most abhorrent people I’ve met have been women. That doesn’t change the fact that gender norms for men promote fragile egos. Messaging of "you must compete, you’re only as good as what you can provide to your family, you should never be weak is ubiquitous. When these things are challenged, or we don’t meet these societal expectations, things tend to go poorly.
Men need to work on supporting each other, being comfortable not aligning with societal expectations, understanding that it’s ok to be weak/vulnerable, and realizing that their value is existential (like all humans) and not tied to production, or some other arbitrary metric.