[Mr. Jeeves]

She won't get much traction with this. Many women get highly offended when it is pointed out to them that this type of humor is unacceptable - they say something like, "Well, I wasn't talking about YOU, it's just a general remark." There is a sense of entitlement created by thirty-five years of feminist cultural influence.

Men just have to laugh it off...and succeed anyway.

[thoughtomator]

More evidence that women's suffrage was a huge mistake.

;)

[Nick Danger]

Men just have to laugh it off...and succeed anyway.

That is easier to do if you are already an adult when it starts. I used to laugh at this stuff too, until a 12-year-old nephew of mine tried to kill himself. He was thoroughly convinced that he was doomed to mature into a wife-beating, daughter-raping, deadbeat dad -- and he just didn't want any part of it. He would rather be dead than grow up to be an — ugh — man.

If you're a kid trying to make sense of the world, these never-ending messages that there is something basically wrong with you can be unnerving, because it appears that it's all true. It's on TV, it's in the comics, you see and hear adults saying these things all the time. I don't think it's healthy to be doing this on such a widespread basis. Even kids understand that jokes are jokes, but that's not what goes on with this stuff. It's presented as science, or common knowledge. I think it's doing enormous damage to developing minds of both sexes.