Pete, Pete Ryland wrote:
> It is offensive. The joke's premise is based on the (untrue) > generalisation that all women are unfathomable. Or rather that women are unfathomable by men. That's offensive to men isn't it? Nearly all jokes are based on a premise that usually is not quite true but kind of rings true in many people's minds. It's the basis of humour! > This suggests that > every single woman is irrational and behaves in a non-deterministic > way. Or in a way that men don't understand! Read 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'! > In my experience, this is most certainly not true of all women, > and indeed a lot of men too share these attributes. I'm impressed that you understand women! I've been married for over 20 years and have still not figured them out, at least not the one closest to me. That's probably more my fault than women's before I get accused of being sexist. > It should be very > easy to see that any suggestion that all men are rational and all > women are irrational may cause offence to those at the sharp end of > the joke. It would indeed, but I'm not sure the extrapolation is necessarily valid. You might argue it was just the guy on the bike and God that didn't understand women. > In any case, it wasn't even funny, and was remarkably off topic. Well, if you substitute 'newbs' for 'women' in the joke as the subject line suggested it was spot on! Now we really are off topic and should probably stop this thread. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
