Assertive

This must be the worst copied image ever. The mouse pointer is visible, the artists name it cut. Why not just show the whole picture like here https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-148723203/view ?
- At least most of the artist's name is still visible, I've seen a lot of comic posts that completely remove it.

Unless you're a short man. Then you're just compensating or have Napoleon complex or something.
- Or Short-Man Syndrome. I have a 6'4" friend who used to joke about SMS, until I pointed out several men we know who behave the same way, but are tall, and asked what syndrome they have. Kudos to him, he started seeing the discrimination, and now uses his "tall privilege" in group discussion settings to direct attention to the short members when the group ignores/talks over them.
- Make you being short their problem when they make it yours. Hot potato that shit

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
- Are you saying all women that give opinions are bitches? Yikes. Why do you think that way?
  
  He's explaining the sexists' train of thought, not endorsing it himself.

Wat?
- The joke is they both wore pajamas to work.
- Boomer humor/"everything I don't like is woke" humor
  
  Maybe, but I'd like to understand the joke / "joke", if there's anything to understand. It could be just "hurdur, I insulted them by saying gender because they're young" or maybe there really is some kind of reasoning.

I’m confused, is this talking about the grillies or the kitchenettes?
- Now I need some answers, what's those terms??
  
  The stereotype goes that men grill and women cook. “Grillies” looks like “girlies” at first glance, establishing subversion

- There’s way more nuance to that, even off the top. Men are absolutely allowed to have a voice as seen by all the male dominated spaces. The big issue is whether you are punching up or down. It’s why conservative comedians are such failures, all their jokes target marginalized people with crass stereotypes and unfounded nonsense, and they leave the stage to continue acting on those ideas.
  In those too few spaces where men are actually held accountable then yes, they are seen as aggressive. Part of the issue is that the male idea of “being ignored” these days is completely off-balance and you can see that so starkly in the outrage whenever we aren’t the center of attention in media. And then we get told this and our first reactions are to get extremely defensive, followed by many continuing to be defensive.
  Men are not the victims here; we started it and are unwilling or highly resistant to sharing the space we got too comfortable in while women and minorities were left outside.
- You are a big fat fucking liar who is trying to deny women a voice because a black MAN might get overshadowed. Fuck off and die misogynist.

Anyone who downvoted this is clueless.
- I got the comic but I'm pretty clueless in general. I'm not totally sure what I'm meant to do in that case so I downvoted your comment to be safe.
- Explain it to us.
  
  Women who are assertive in the workplace are described as aggressive, bitches, things of that nature. Men who are assertive in the workplace are described as confident or having leadership skills, that sort of thing.