DVD, have you heard this one?

Q: How many anti-feminist men does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Just one. He holds on to the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around his needs.

Wanna tissue?

Veronika, LOL.

I hadn't refreshed the page so I wasn't aware that you posted a joke already.

Glad we chose different ones :)
Now DVD needs 2 tissues. Booohoooo!

SJF,

the point I was trying to make is that the media, will manipulate any story possible, for the best effect, to sell papers/mags, or to improve the ratings.

Whilst the media is open to manipulation, the media also manipulates.

I haven't laughed so hard for a while reading some of the posts.

James, I hadn't heard the one about brunettes. Now I realise why I understand all the blond jokes! Thank you for that information.....

Why does Klay read those emails that she finds stupid and unfunny? I agree that some of the email junk is boring, but some is quite funny. Not only jokes about men, but children, work, religion, nationalities and women.

Romany gives some great advice. Very disciplined of you not to make any comment on the sources of your emails by the way! Fascinating, your observation on the origins of subject matter.

It is just too silly to think that there are no longer any jokes aimed at women anymore. Some paranoids are buying too much into propaganda of a sinister conspiracy that feminists are supposedly masterminding. What a joke! We're daughters, sisters, mothers and/or lovers of men you know.

Here's a couple aimed at women:

Why do men break wind more than women?
- Because women can't shut up long enough to build up the pressure.

After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, 'You know, I was a fool when I married you.' The husband replied, 'Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice.'

Anansi>"I haven't laughed so hard for a while reading some of the posts."

article>"...I read that one in six Australian men suffer from depression at any given time, four times more young men than young women commit suicide, and the suicide rate for males aged 15 to 24 years has tripled in recent years."

Anansi>"Why does Klay read those emails that she finds stupid and unfunny?"

article>"In the time I saved not reading emails from would-be comediennes"

Anansi>" I agree that some of the email junk is boring, but some is quite funny."

article>"I read that one in six Australian men suffer from depression at any given time, four times more young men than young women commit suicide, and the suicide rate for males aged 15 to 24 years has tripled in recent years."

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Sexist Humor No Laughing Matter, Psychologist Says

ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2007) — A research project led by a Western Carolina University psychology professor indicates that jokes about blondes and women drivers are not just harmless fun and games; instead, exposure to sexist humor can lead to toleration of hostile feelings and discrimination against women.
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As long as women shut the hell up about women jokes everywhere, I'm fine with it. That means no more cries of misogyny and other bull!@#$.

Otherwise read the end of the author's article.

Rosie Williams

You are a kindred spirit!

Veronika

Good point about New Idea’s ‘Mere Male’ section, which pre-dates second-wave feminism by about a thousand years.

In fact, I get very annoyed at how so much tired old battle-of-the-sexes humour, when used by women against men, has been ignorantly passed off as ‘feminist humour’ – when it has nothing to do with feminism.

Genuine feminist humour is specific to the aims of feminism. This, from Gloria Steinem, is a good example of distinctly feminist humour:

‘If men could menstruate they would brag about how long and how much.... Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea... and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation as-proof that only men could... be priests and ministers.’

Feminist humour also focuses on jokes specific to women having to cope in a man’s world … like work-life balance, tampon merchandising, Cinderella fantasy etc.

JamesH

‘Whilst the media is open to manipulation, the media also manipulates.’

Agree absolutely. But I’m not quite sure what your point is in relation to this topic.

Steel

Re suicide and depression relative to gender…

‘For every completed male suicide there are five attempts. For every completed female suicide there are 35 attempts.’ [http://www.wesleymission.org.au/publications/r&d/suicide.htm]

‘Depression alone affects approximately 1.3 million Australian women ever year, compared with 750,000 men.’
[http://www.news-medical.net/?id=14008]

Men are more ‘successful’ at suicide mainly because they mostly use more violent methods (guns, hanging) which have immediate effects. Women mostly use more passive methods (drugs, carbon monoxide), which take longer and consequently may lead to a change of mind or intervention by another party.