First these two - these posts are in poor taste in the context of this thread and this forum. While I know you intend it as a joke, enough women would not enjoy the joke of being shared among the men of this board, that it’s best to not make it.
Now this. Next time use the report function and not comment in-thread.
iiandyiiii:
Women aren’t things to be traded or shared – the innapropriateness of such jokes would probably be obvious were the poll in question about the race of Dopers rather than gender. We don’t share or trade women any more than we share or trade black people.
Let’s all try to be better than the society we came from.
**Finally- **let’s not extend the hijack by responding.
kayaker:
[del]There’s * the little girl![/del] Sorry. It was a joke **** meant to belittle the stereotypic view once held by males in society. Things are largely different today.
***** Expected response to a joke is laughter. The joke teller hopes the audience “gets it” and is entertained. This leads to the premise that a joke is actually an “understanding test” between individuals and groups. If the listeners do not get the joke, they are not understanding the two scripts which are contained in the narrative as they were intended. Or they do “get it” and don’t laugh; it might be too obscene, too gross or too dumb for the current audience. A woman might respond differently to a joke told by a male colleague around the water cooler than she would to the same joke overheard in a women’s lavatory. A joke involving toilet humour may be funnier told on the playground at elementary school than on a college campus. The same joke will elicit different responses in different settings. The punchline in the joke remains the same, however it is more or less appropriate depending on the current context.