I don’t think I’m oppressed… I’d just appreciate a little respect, I suppose, and a little less generalization. For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s pervasive, but I think there is a sense in American society that it’s OK to make negative generalizations about men, while doing the same about women is automatically sexist.
A little more fairness, maybe.
This is a very old joke. I saw the wholly blank Everything Men Know About Women book at least ten years ago.
Sounds like the book isn’t very funny. It’s sort of like a one joke affair that doesn’t have enough zing to be funny for ninety six pages.
Nevertheless, until the author jabs me in the eye with her thumb, I’ll shrug it off. If she should so far forget herself as to attempt jabbing me with her thumb, I’ll knock her ass to the ground with a right jab.
::yawn::
‘About men’ - > Blank?
Very buddhist.
I’m late to this party, but another chick chiming in with the tune ‘This book sounds like a sexist piece of shit!’
It’s gotten to the point where making fun of men is not only OK, it’s expected. Sorry bucko. BACK DA TRUCK UP.
This chick ain’t buyin none of that male bashing.
I’ve been known to joke on the topic with people who knew they could joke with ME about CHICKS, but this is just freaking ridiculous.
However, I almost wanna buy this book. Because if I ever run out of toilet paper, at least I’d have something to wipe my ass with.
catsiz No, Use an empty book to write in. Use a book with words in it that you dislike, as toilet paper.
Which has given me an idea for a IMHO thead - Books you’d use as toilet paper
(if anyone else would like to create that thread - I wouldn’t object. That way it would not have my synonymous-with-annoying-witless-behaviour name on it)
But Lobsang, all that ink stains my cute liittle ass. Hence I need to use the blank book.
Dumb, unfunny, done to death. My (very Irish) grandma’s got a book like that called The Wisdom of the Irish. :smack: I’m not sure how that one ever got published, as it strikes me as a lot more potentially offensive than “lol men are lazy lol.”
And as Mighty_Girl said, the unfair generalizations apply to both sexes as well. What, so the wheedling, anal-retentive shrews that women are have to spend their days picking up after the lazy slobs that all men are?
I wonder if we’re taking this whole thing too seriously, though. Yes, it’s dumb, unfunny and done to death, but that might just be the point. Besides, you’d have to wonder about the person who shells out whatever this book retails for a one-time joke that stopped being funny and started being overdone about 30 years ago.
I’m waiting for one of the board’s few published authors to come in here and yell “ACKPHTLQXMFGTT!!! I had to crawl on my belly and suck the slime off people’s boots to get my novel published, but these two dingbats managed to publish a book that has NO CONTENT WHATSOEVER?!?!”
{mmmm cute little ass)
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Did I say that out loud?
Oh, waaaaait.
Well, that’s a noble cause, but it’s a bit inappropriate for a light joke…
:eek: Yep, that’s pretty sexist all right.
Yes, the book is sexist and neither funny nor original. The same joke’s been around at least for thirty years, and I’m sure much longer.
It’s certainly understandable that fair-minded people everywhere would be offended by it; however as member of the group that is the butt of the joke I would discourage that reaction. There is too much of that going on already. People seem to seek out being offended with a perverse glee. Raising people’s consciousnesses is a good thing, but you can do that without acting offended or insulted.
I just think the world would be a better place if we all lightened up a bit.
Yeah - let women have their laugh. I don’t care. They make up for it by looking hot.
Wow! This really does cross the unclear-of-the-concept threshold.
Lindy and Jordan dropped out of school to write a book that is completely blank… I think I know which way the punchline went…
Ok, ya got me Lobsang.
My ass ain’t little.
Ah, the “Idiot Man-Child” stereotype raises its ugly head again. I get so damned tired of watching commercials and movies make out that all men are helplessly stupid without all-knowing, super-competent women and children around to point out how helpless and stupid they are. My man is not stupid or helpless; he’s a complex, creative, intelligent human being, just like I am. Hello, media world? Think you can quit beating this stereotype into the ground yet?
Unless:
But other than that…
I used to get offended by stuff like this (actually, I think I may have been offended by this exact thing, like ten years ago, because this is some old shit), but now I just shrug it off. It can be useful, though. It gives you a clue about the inner workings of some people’s minds. If I knew someone who sincerely thought this was the funniest thing they’d ever seen, I’d be able to say “Okay, now I know where I stand with you” and I could take that into account when dealing with that person in the future.
Yeah, I gave that to my step-mother as a Christmas present one year. Really, though, what bothers me is that the whole thing’s become a tired cliche and folks just won’t let it go. It was funny the first thousand times, now it’s starting to get old. Especially since I’m living in a trailer, hoping to goddess that I can scrape up the money to pay my bills.
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.