In the story, the wife is already being exploited by her unemployed husband, who uses her money to sleep with her hairdresser while she struggles to keep the household running. Against that backdrop, the comment “Better let him get that job so that he can afford condom and at least not infect you” is especially disturbing. It does not address the betrayal, financial abuse, or emotional harm she is suffering. Instead, it treats the husband’s cheating as something normal that only needs to be made “safer.” This shifts responsibility away from the man who is wronging his wife and places the burden on her to tolerate and even facilitate his infidelity. Rather than encouraging accountability or self-respect, the comment effectively tells a woman being used and humiliated to accept a more convenient form of mistreatment.
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