Or you could title a book Don’t read this book, I’m a moron. and not be a moron, just someone who made a bad choice of a title. It takes more than a cover to fairly judge a book. The reviews are mixed, the interview I heard had some good and bad, but the editorial reviews posted on Amazon seem generally positive. I’d say it may be worth picking up from the library and giving a read.
Enjoy,
Steven
Being under 30 and knowing lots of people under 30, I can tell you right now the author’s problem is, at best, sample size. He had his chance to grab me with the title, and instead he insulted me. So, sorry Mtgman, I’m not reading it.
No skin off my nose. Just offering it as something Cat Fight may have been interested in, given the author seems to share the observation of people getting more self-absorbed and using technology to broadcast their personal business and things which would have been kept private by previous generations. I’m barely above the trust threshold myself(32), so here’s a grain of salt. .
Enjoy,
Steven
Nope. He’s a big boy and should take it like a man and ignore her. And yeah, that’s completely sexist. (shrug)
But why?
How’s this work? Wouldn’t she be your granddaughter?
Ye gods, I’m stupid. That’s supposed to be my son’s sister.
I appreciate it! And I appreciate the need for an author/publisher to grab a reader’s attention, on the book shelf or through the media. I also liked Everything Bad Is Good For You but take that title with a grain of salt, too. I am somewhere near the author’s stupidity threshold and I’ll admit yes, I fit there quite well. Appalled at teenage cyber bullying and nude pics while I broadcast my dinner plans.
What were some of these jokes?
Yeah really, for not having ever given any details about the nature of the “jokes”, some people here are getting awfully outraged (and others in the completely opposite direction, once they realized what the OP was talking about said that’s pretty much to be expected. I tend to side with the latter interpretation but I’d like to see some evidence)
Rigamarole, have you read the rest of the thread? I can’t see how any jokes about leaving your wife for someone else can be seen as anything other than tasteless *when there is actually a divorce in the works *(as there is).
Not only tasteless, but also pretty damn stupid. Those things are admissible as evidence in divorce proceedings. The blog my ex-SiL put up(but moreso the second blog she put up after the judge ordered her not to blog about a current case) were certainly big factors in how the settlement went down and the custody hearing.
Enjoy,
Steven
So if you’re getting a divorce you have to remain completely humorless about the situation? Can’t crack a smile or make light of it at all? I don’t buy that. Obviously it would be easy to cross the line into something truly inappropriate, but there definitely jokes about an impending divorce, and even about a soon-to-be ex-wife, that are acceptable to make. The alternative is pretty much to be a boring, unpleasant human being until everything is settled.
I don’t think it matters much, if you know that your soon-to-be-ex-wife’s brother is one of your Facebook friends and yet you have him set such that he can see you joking about it. There can be such things as more-or-less-amiable divorces, and this ain’t the way to have one.
Traditionally, beyond the age of, oh, ten, little brothers were thought to be capable of either defending themselves or learning to pick their fights. Little sisters are probably smaller than the guys abusing them, so we have not only familial feelings of protection but also chivalry–and yeah, when I was growing up it still had power–forcing us to come to the defense of any damsel in distress. It’s undoubtedly sexist, but sexism is not always a bad thing when it is seen as defending the downtrodden.
Yeah, I’m an old fart.
But doesn’t it kind of infantilize women to see them as the “downtrodden” or as the weaker sex in need of protection?
Yes, and that’s what I was referring to when I said “others… once they realized what the OP was talking about”. I’m not seeing what’s tasteless about trying to find humor in one’s situation, especially without knowing what was said. Also in a later post the OP mentioned “public humiliation”, which is hogwash if his FB profile is not set to be public, which most profiles are not. Only FB friends can view most profiles, and clearly the person in question is no longer the OP’s friend but was still an FB friend of his at the time - so he was getting access to information a stranger wouldn’t have.
Agreed. I have read the whole thread, and I’m curious, too. Is this “Take my wife…PLEASE” fare, or “I’m gonna cut a bitch” talk?
Note the First: I said it was sexist.
Note the Second: Not really. As long as men hold a physical size advantage over the women with whom they associate, and they usually do, the women are, actually, weaker and, probably, deserve protection, at least until the particulars of the fight are worked out. Okay, if Skald’s sister keeps a razor in her hair and a mithril sword in her boot she can probably take care of herself, but this is a job for a brother worked out over millenia.
Even if it’s just words? In that particular arena, it seems to be that the “fairer” sex has the edge.