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

Meme needing explanation Lois?

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u/PalePlumm Apr 24 '26

But the fact that women can and do die wasn’t enough for men to take the warnings seriously?

I ask again: Did you all think we were just being dramatic? It sounds like you guys didn’t take women’s accounts of how traumatic childbirth can be seriously when you got a woman pregnant.

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u/Luckymacaroni Apr 24 '26

You can die at any moment. Anything can kill you. That's why danger of death isn't taken seriously unless it's super common.

I think a good example is that people don't go to restaurants thinking it will be their last meal just because people die from food poisoning, people go to restaurants expecting a meal and to leave happy.

Typically people will go to give birth thinking it will all go well. I rarely see stories about mother's dying at birth, I don't think I know anyone who's mother died at birth. (though I do know a lot of stories about babies dying at birth..) Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's not something that should be a big worry I think

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u/PalePlumm Apr 24 '26

You don’t lose liters of blood when you go to a restaurant lmfaoooo.

I don’t know any woman who thinks birth will “go well”. They HOPE it will. But every woman fears a c section or episiotomy. Every. Single. One.

So yeah, men thought we were being dramatic and didn’t take us seriously. Got it.

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u/ringed_city_117 Apr 24 '26

Who’s “men”? You use the term as if talking about a specific person you know yet you are seemingly using it to describe every single man on the planet