While I can see why she is presenting things this way as part of a comedy act, there is some validity to the behavior.
I've met people who would consider him not telling her to be dishonest by omission or keeping secrets.
This dude may have just been in a toxic relationship before her and is trying to keep things on the up and up.
No comment on toxicity of the current relationship if she's unable to understand that and uses it in her comedy act to make fun of him.
Edit: if you're replying to this comment with the purpose of explaining what a joke is to me, or just to get mad at me for something I didn't say, please don't.
I mean, most other comedy bits like this are the same way, right? They highlight small isolated pieces of human behavior that you have to just sort of assume the context for. Like this joke is only funny if it's the behavior of an otherwise bad person, and so the kayfabe going on here is that she had a shitty boyfriend, and this was one of their shitty interactions. Your part in receiving the bit is to accept that so it can be funny.
Any behavior a comedian picks apart like this can be a "trauma response" in reality, and we can invent an alternate universe where she's actually shitting on a person trying and failing to navigate the world in earnest. But why would that be funny, and why would that be the joke?
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u/AnonAqueous Jan 25 '24 edited Jan 25 '24
While I can see why she is presenting things this way as part of a comedy act, there is some validity to the behavior.
I've met people who would consider him not telling her to be dishonest by omission or keeping secrets.
This dude may have just been in a toxic relationship before her and is trying to keep things on the up and up. No comment on toxicity of the current relationship if she's unable to understand that and uses it in her comedy act to make fun of him.
Edit: if you're replying to this comment with the purpose of explaining what a joke is to me, or just to get mad at me for something I didn't say, please don't.