r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/WithSkelly • Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Lois?

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u/harv3ydg Apr 24 '26

“Ethnically Swedish” 💀

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u/Beautiful-Swimmer339 Apr 24 '26

Im of course referring to the tendency of middle eastern men in particular to refuse to change diapers of small children at all or to take paternity leave even back when that peternity leave is lost if not used by the father.

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u/begrudgingredditacc Apr 24 '26

Im of course referring to the tendency of middle eastern men in particular

To clarify, those men are specifically first-generation or second-generation immigrants who buy into a hypermasculine traditionalist culture. You'd see the same behaviour from an American evangelical, or a Chinese Confucianist. Be careful not to miss the forest for the trees.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '26

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u/panrestrial Apr 24 '26

They aren't; they're clarifying reality.

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u/HarryJohnson3 Apr 24 '26

Lmfao such bigotry of low expectations. As if “well it’s their culture” would ever be an expectable excuse for the same behavior from an American evangelical.

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u/Stratafyre Apr 24 '26

You appear to be confusing a reason with an excuse. Explaining why something happens doesn't excuse why it happened.

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u/StepComplete1 Apr 24 '26

I don't know what you're pretending such absurd "whataboutism" in that post was, if not an excuse.

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u/FoolishPippin Apr 24 '26

Because it explains the reason of the behavior, they did not say the explanation justifies the behavior or makes it okay in anyway.

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u/Bwxyz Apr 24 '26

Why would the swedish nurses have anything to say about American Evangelists and Chinese Confucianists

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u/Adventurous_Money533 Apr 24 '26

To be fair we dont have alot of evangelical american Christians or Chinese confucianists in Sweden, so il not sure why someone from sweden would ever compare themselves to them as opposed to comparing themselves to middle eastern men, which makes up a large percentage of our actual population

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u/crossingguardcrush Apr 24 '26

Of course there are reasons that Mideastern immigrants are not dads who go sharesies on child rearing; of course it has to do with culture; of course there are other cultures that are this way. You added nothing to the post.

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u/autoloos Apr 24 '26

Uh huh. Sure buddy.

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u/Elite_AI Apr 24 '26

I looked it up and 4.5% of the Swedish population is from the Middle East, maybe I misunderstood something but doesn't it seem a little odd for nurses to randomly comment on 4.5% of the population?

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u/Aurrr-Naurrrr Apr 24 '26

now look at the children per capita. 20% of children born in sweeden recently were to immigrants. Thats pretty wild if theyre actually 4.5% of the pop

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u/Elite_AI Apr 24 '26

Middle Easterners are not 100% of the immigrant population 

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u/Aurrr-Naurrrr Apr 24 '26

Just the vast majority of it over the last 15 years. But sure

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u/Elite_AI Apr 24 '26

Factually wrong, don't get all "but sure" with me, Redditor

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u/Property_that_bites Apr 24 '26

"immigrants" or "immigrants from the Middle East"? 20% would refer to all children born to all immigrants. This includes, for an example, white Americans who came to Sweden just as much as it includes people from the Middle East. 

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u/Alive_Bison_3733 Apr 24 '26

It is but she can say this cause she is from Sweden which is „cool” country

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u/Elite_AI Apr 24 '26

She can say it because the Reddit circlejerk agrees Sweden is overrun with brown people 

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u/autoloos Apr 24 '26

If it’s that noticeable and they’re only 4.5%, I think that tells you all you need to know.

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u/Elite_AI Apr 24 '26

That's definitely one way you could interpret it. I'm not convinced

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u/panrestrial Apr 24 '26

Own that ignorance, girl!

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u/harv3ydg Apr 24 '26

What about someone who is not ethnically Swedish but is born in Sweden?

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u/TraDukTer Apr 24 '26

Weird to only change diapers on larger (/older) children, but it wouldn't be the weirdest hill to due on for performative masculinity that I've heard of.

I was gonna write /s but the more I think about it the less I'm sure. But I'm defaulting to assuming the previous comment meant they refuse changing diapers at all, and just small children need them.

Maybe there's a point in a child's development where that dookie gets metal enough to be safe to handle without halving your testosterone count and dropping a couple Greek letters down the manoscope alphabet.