Whilst celebrating my cousins birthday today with nibblies (lots of decadence), wine and friends

a friend chose to share this with us.

Why dont men trust females?

How can you trust something that bleeds for a week but doesn't die.

Now before anyone get angry with that I will put it in context. We were discussing men in general and the things they do when scared or confused. To be confronted with the power we women have at overcoming death - wouldn't you be scared.

Sorry I just had to share that

I hope I haven't angered anyone!

Not at all angered, but could someone explain to me how I can bleed 4-5 times a month and not die? I assume it is because I am menopausal.

To get back to the original question, I do think that Mr L envies me my ability.........

Hublet,

I do find the joke offensive, but am not angry.

The reason I find remarks like this distasteful is because the joke compares women with inanimate objects (some"thing") and because there is an underlying tone of violence in this humour based on sexual difference.

When women's essential physiological difference from men is mocked and degraded by being compared with an animal or an inanimate object, (or a "piece of meat"), my humour evaporates fast.

For the same reason I do not find some women's degrading jokes about men amusing either.

Cheers,

fruittbatt

Hi Fruittbatt,

Sorry about that. I hadn't thought it the way you described and you do have a point.

I am Australian, however, and for a very long time we have used humour to deal with problems, even disasters. We tend to make jokes of bad situations and these can sometimes be outrageously inconsiderate but (good or bad) I certainly did not mean to give offence. Unfortunately or fortuntately, depending on how you look at it, it is the Australian way.

Hublet, a very inappropriate and tacky attempt at humour, and to excuse it because it is the Australian way is pathetic.

There is a thread about Australian humour in the jokes forum, read that to understand the real thing.

I believe Fruitbat is Australian, as am I, and we obviously disagree with your humour and poor attempt to extracate yourself by blaming your nationality for your bad taste.

That line come from Mr Mackey in the South Park Movie so not original at all, or wait not Mr Mackey but rather the other school teacher who is gay

Edited October 31, 200619 yr by The Dude

Hey chill out guys!!! I take no offense in that joke. I'm a woman too. It's a just a stupid joke people trying to break some ice at a party. People do that just to have something they think funny to say. I don't think the person who said it really believed it. Don't you guys joke around sometimes? I do.

Thanks Redwater,

I was starting to think I was the only dill here.

I for one wont be cracking anymore jokes here.

Personally given the response to one joke (as bad as it was) I think ..............

well then perhaps I should not say anything - a bit too touchy in here.

Sorry I'll leave

Hublet, if you'll go back through threads in the Ladies forum you will see many instances of men coming on here just to make disparaging comments about women and then passing it off as humor. We have had numerous problems like this time and time again.

Hope that goes a ways towards explaining the "touchiness".

As for the joke, it is an old one, not particularly funny but not particularly insulting either.