I can't believe everyone is so sensitive. Being male. I love the male "put-down" jokes and they are always the first I send to my female friends. It's all "water off a duck's back" as far as I'm concerned and whether it's an Irish joke, a medical joke, a religious joke, a female joke or whatever, as long as it's clever and strikes a chord, who cares if it has an element of truth. Surely that's what makes it amusing.

I did read the article “honestly”. Yes, some of these jokes were coming from work-mates. Workmates can often be people one knows only slightly or peripherally. Which is why a polite note to all often works. These are often the very people who press the Send To All button. The worst response one could get is “Where’s your sense of humour?” Those counted as friends usually know one well enough to know what one finds amusing and to accept a reminder of what one doesn’t. But, if not, adding some like-minded souls or organizations to one’s mailing list often does wonders to upgrade the annoying emails. Those were my points. What is dishonest about them?

I am so sick and tired of the words “liar” “dishonest” being flung around these threads. I can only conclude that truth and honesty are imperfectly understood concepts as people make free with these concept in such casual and cavalier ways. Jeez, mate. Tell me I’m wrong, or a busybody or unrealistic. But dishonest?

“…in other words, it's so commonplace now because feminist propaganda has ensured that it is "normal" to do this.” That, right there, is an interpretation I don’t agree with so I pointed out that emails enjoining one to send on Angels, or prayers etc. were also endemic. I was highlighting the fact that nuisance emails come in all shapes and sizes and not just ani-male. I was trying to do so in a non-combative way. Is that dishonest?

I was, perhaps, narrowing the topic in terms of not engaging in The Great Evil Feminist mantra, however, I linked my post quite clearly to Roberts’s words concerning, specifically, emails. Is that dishonest?

I did read the comments and took note of exactly who it was who was posting. I was trying, in my fluttery, muddled and feminine way, not to fan the flames of infantile gender warfare again by pointing out both that nuisance emails cover the spectrum and that there is a way to cope with them. Honestly.

Us men do exactly the same thing. Men have apparently embraced feminine dissimulation and engage the same cowardly passive-aggressive projection of our own gender ressentiments and insecurities. Battles of the ego are folly and everyone ends up looking childish.

To wit...

There's a reason why marriage is called MATRImony rather than patrimony. Ever noticed how fiance is one N away from finance? Did someone drop the E before the Y in matrimony? Why is the gaming console more interesting to him than you? (hint, its not him). Why are there so many internet widows?

All nonsense of course, but there's so much pent up ressentiment b/w the sexes, so much latent hostility having emerged over the last few decades, its hard to imagine positive change any time soon.

Political correctness has a way of flipping prejudices, repressing one prejudice and validating another. It may be better to let people voice their thoughts and feelings without restraint. That way we can all see it and the nonsense will expose itself. When folks get their gripes off their chests, they feel better about being heard and that has a way of dissipating their hangups.

Stiffling discourse about personal discontent drives it deeper, augmenting the hostility, until it MANifests (oops) in uninteded ways. One of which may be the 'man shortage.' Hositily is very unattractive. Paradoxically, scaring men off, just makes women more insecure which feeds the hosility. Maybe this proliferation in man-bashing is an indicator of that. It points to the possibility that women might be the architects of their own discontent in this case.

Let people speak. l would rather know what women really think about men than dance with the pretence. l might learn something about myself that may benefit from change.

l dont think this stuff damages males. Quite the contrary. It opens our eyes. You realise that its a case of 'sticks and stones' and 'what you say is what you are' school-yard level stuff. To wit... l am man, hear me fart, burp and snore... or not.

Oh yeah, l just cant resist...

Men are a breeding experiment run by women.

It is simply not PC to bag women / Blacks / Aborigines / jews / children etc.

Men are the only safe territory left

Isn't the real culprit here a lame sense of humour?