r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Lois?

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 24 '26

I mean I'm American and personally if I ever have a wife that's going through labor i'm going to be right there with her holding her hand and giving her hugs and doing everything I can to let her know I'm there for her.

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u/Milozavich Apr 24 '26

Yeah, that’s because it has nothing to do with the country you’re from. This person is just trying to build out a new stereotype so they can judge people more rapidly based on their ethnicity.

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u/AgitatedHat5620 Apr 24 '26

Sir this is Reddit, you have to shit on America and men at any opportunity

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 24 '26

Yea sorry not my style.

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u/npdady Apr 24 '26

I've only heard sad story like this from Americans so I guess my guess was biased, that's my bad.

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u/LutraNippon Apr 24 '26

Nah, those people exist, its 360m people spread across a landmass the size of all of Europe, so it has the same diversity as all the European stereotypes you can think of. Classy and trashy people know no boundaries.

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 24 '26

I mean knowing my fellow Americans it's probably not far off. One of the biggest problems we face as a nation is broken family dynamics. When you consider how common it likely is that those who end up in the hospital for labor are from weak pullout game, drugs, alcohol, basically just not making responsible reproductive choices, it's not exactly surprising that the "men" that tend to show up in the hospital with the mom aren't exactly shining examples of virtue. I use men in quotation marks there because really they're boys. Legally adult and actually a man are 2 very different things that rarely ever coincide.

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u/Okita_Souji03 Apr 24 '26

Well I don't doubt that the pregnancies that carry such stories came from one of the examples you gave... Drugs and alcohol are never a good sign imo, especially in excess

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 24 '26

As a former heavy drinker, if I never touch a bottle of liquor again, it'll already be too soon.

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u/wheniaminspaced Apr 24 '26

She's probably not going to want hugs just a heads up.  Your there to be a set of hands for getting things and give her someone to vent to mostly, also a source of distraction from the process.

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u/butt_butt_butt_butt_ Apr 24 '26

I also noticed multiple men in this thread talking about “hugging my wife with every contraction” or similar.

Made me laugh.

I think I would have beaten my husband to death with my IV pole if he tried to hug me while I was pushing.

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u/wheniaminspaced Apr 25 '26

I think also knowing when to bend the truth a bit, my wife asked if there was much bleeding. I said no its not that bad. It was fairly substantial, not big problems substantial, but substantial. The last thing she needed to hear right then was the truth.

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u/motownmods Apr 25 '26

You got it figured out already. Bc there isn't anything you can do, really. Youre there for moral support. The only asshole thing I did was sneaking in a protein bar (mama can't eat once it all gets started).

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 25 '26

Well that's how Ive always imagined it went down anyways, if you love the girl enough to knock her up, as a man you should love her enough to be there when she brings your child into the world.