r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Lois?

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u/Mountain-Resource656 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

“I, a corrections officer for a region in which there is a statistically anomalously high black population, express surprise when it turns out that the black inmate turned out to be innocent all along, because usually I don’t happen to see that happen, given the fact that all my prisoners are post-conviction, and am phrasing this as ‘when your black inmate ends up released because it turns out the prosecution messed up and they were innocent all along’ with an image of my face very surprised but don’t worry it’s not racist because I legitimately see a lot of bad black people”

Edit: also, pointedly, other commenters are saying that in the original video it was actually s response to the man getting slapped for saying this, and not about the man saying this, so the actual original person wasn’t being sexist but the person taking the screenshot was just some rando

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u/anonymous_teleost Apr 24 '26

If researchers did a survey of couples who delivered babies in US hospitals, and showed that most men were not engaged or supportive of their partners during delivery would you still think those results are sexist against men? Or representative of a a true cultural pattern?

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u/Much_Vehicle20 Apr 24 '26

Is there any reserach about that? 

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u/sleepyplatipus Apr 27 '26

Yes. It changes widely by region, but if you quickly google it it seems that reports say that men are involvement in childbirth is 40-66%. In postnatal care it’s only 25%. It’s probably getting higher with time but nowhere near what it should ideally be.

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u/Dendrobite Apr 30 '26

JFC! 25% is abysmal.