# New Book about Men - It's blank **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 26, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036 "2002-12-26T21:45:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/41 "2002-12-27T07:38:43Z")
Someone repair that glass ceiling already! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/42 "2002-12-27T08:08:39Z")
Sexist? Maybe. But it is a pretty lame joke, and one we’ve all heard many times before. Something tells me that the Mid-Valley Women’s Crisis Service in Salem isn’t gonna see much from this. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/43 "2002-12-27T08:12:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HenrySpencer \* > \*\*I dunno - as a bloke it looks pretty accurate to me. After all, ever seen a man try to cook? What a joke! Everyone knows a kitchen is **A WOMAN’S PLACE** , and any man who tries to enter the kitchen for any other reason than asking when dinner’s ready is a gender traitor. > > Same goes for those male goons who try to look after their children, change nappies, or do any of the other things that advertisements and comic strips have shown us again and again are the domain of women and _women only_. > > I don’t think that’s sexist at all. \*\* Are you sure you stand by both of these statements? There are, I daresay, a few of us here who might take exception to either/both of these. ---
**Author:** ![scablet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@scablet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scablet)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/44 "2002-12-27T08:33:30Z")
They’re doing this for the domestically abused, of all things? Women like this make me want to escape my gender by way of having a penis installed. On my forehead. So I can bludgeon them horridly. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/45 "2002-12-27T10:15:52Z")
Hmm, perhaps I did get whooshed. If that’s the case, **raisinbread** , please accept my apologies. It was an honest mistake. It seems that I’m not the person to judge these situations, but did **punha** just get whooshed, too? Anyhoo, the OP’s book is stupid. I mean, maybe a funny idea, maybe, but for them to pitch it to a publisher and someone going to all the trouble of printing the damn things? I wouold prefer that the trees that made this book still be standing. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/46 "2002-12-27T10:55:26Z")
Oh fucking A’, come off of it already. This attitude is what produced the ridiculous “Iron John”. If you are even mildly insulted by this book, go gather some of your friends and beat a drum in a suburban treebreak. I’ll furnish you with the potato sacks and point you the way to the most feared of prey. The snipe. Have fun on the hunt. The book is an old, _old_, joke. We’ve made it from the other side. example: Why do women _think_ too damn much? I mention the miles we’ve traveled and she’s wondering about where our relationship is going to be in 20 years. Meanwhile, I’m thinking about the oil filter in the Jeep. There are times I feel I need to stand up for my sex. This ain’t one of them. Grow some balls. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/47 "2002-12-27T11:36:04Z")
Hmmm, what the fuck is wrong with my browser? I think it’s cookies. When I wrote and posted that response there were 4 posts showing. _ **And** _ the times were different. Oh, well. Take the above as purely a comment on the OP and not as a post ignoring what has been said before. ---
**Author:** ![jonpluc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jonpluc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonpluc)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/48 "2002-12-27T19:17:20Z")
Yea i think iampunha got whoosed too. ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/49 "2002-12-27T19:40:33Z")
WOW! IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S SAYING MEN COULDN’T DO ANYTHING BEFORE WOMEN CAME ALONG! THE BLANK PAGES STATE THAT MEN COULD DO NOTHING! ISN’T THAT THE FUNNIEST THING YOU EVER HEARD OF? DON’T YOU GET IT? Not funny, not original, barely offensive. I would wipe my ass with this book, but that would disgrace my anus. I shudder when I think of the number of trees needed to make a copy of it. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/50 "2002-12-27T20:15:02Z")
Eh, everyone’s a punchline at some time or another. That’s why we seek out those who enjoy the same jokes as we do. My mom likes really cutesy and quaint cliche based humor such as that referenced in the OP. And I think such humor is inane and unworthy of even a smirk. And that’s why me and my mom don’t hang out and drop acid together. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/51 "2002-12-27T21:17:31Z")
The inequality of the sexes continues to rage. If a man says something suggestive to a woman, it’s sexual harrassment. If a woman says something suggestive to a man, it will cost him $2.99 per minute, at minimum. As far as the bookus tuchus maneuver-it’s the wrong kind of paper for your anus and your septic system. Be kind to your butt and the environment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036/52 "2002-12-28T11:05:34Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by Iampunha_ > Are you sure you stand by both of these statements? There are, I daresay, a few of us here who might take exception to either/both of these. If anyone still cares (and it looks like nobody does, but I just got back online, so I might as well say it), I was being sarcastic. To me, the message this books is giving across is the same as adverts that go back to the 1950’s, where doofus husband would try to do something in the kitchen and make a mess of it, only to be replaced by the woman of the house stepping in and saving the day. Subliminal message: women belong in the kitchen, and men don’t. I’m not offended at all by this book, but I just think it’s humorous that the same message that is blamed by feminists for keeping women in chains in the 1950’s is being spread by women like these ‘authors’ now, whether they know it or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-about-men-its-blank/145036.md?page=2)