Hey Women, Quit Being So Selfish!
If men were writing the advice columns, is this the kind of advice they would give? Are the advice columns written by women really any less selfish?
posted by Helen at 9:27 AM
Monday, May 22, 2006
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21 Comments:
OK, that was really funny. I know it was kinda sexist, and a small part of me wants to be offended, but I just laughed.
Trey
Trey,
Yes, it was funny and sexist--but it is supposed to be humor and really, can a blog be that serious all of the time? and really, it is no worse than some of the trash they have on Oprah or advice columns for women where they talk about what a bunch of selfish dogs men are.
Helen, I agree, and I was not complaining. It is interesting how some sexist humour strikes me as funny and some strikes me as offensive. I think the writing was so over the top that it struck me as really funny. I did not detect anything mean about it. Often I don't find this sort of thing that funny, but I laughed out loud.
Nice way to start a Monday!
Trey
There was an interesting item in today's WSJ about the first advice column, circa 1898. It was kind of irritating that they gave the questions but didn't give her answers...
JW,
Male bashing? Get a grip. Most level headed guys think this is just funny. How do you get male bashing out of this?
Dear Dr. Helen:
I want to thank you for posting that most helpful advice. I've copied it and sent it to Hillary.
Ira Levin took the same idea to its logical conclusion 30 years ago. What if the same sort of men could make women be exactly what they wanted? Then they would be Stepford wives.
Someone's sense of humor needs adjusting.
From my experience, most 'women's' advice columns usually center around communication and perhaps therapy alone or together. I realize that both of those things are horrible for men (JUST KIDDING). But usually the advice given is for the women to wake up!
I love that book 'He's just not into you' because it speaks to women who will sit home and obsess about why a guy will not call them. If you only knew some of the crap these women think up to avoid the obvious - HE'S JUST NOT INTERESTED!!!!!
One of the funniest things about these comments is that some people want to compare a joke to serious advice columns. This suggests some serious problems with perspective.
Didn't Helen and some commenters fall for the same thing a while back when a man penned a satire about the phone conversation he heard between his wife and a friend?
Get a life, folks.
One of the funniest things about these comments is that some people want to compare a joke to serious advice columns.
There are serious advice columns?
I always put them on the same level of respectability as horoscopes. Hell, they often appear on the same pages in newspapers, along with the comics.
Rizzo,
Of course not. But these people think there are.
Remember when the guy satirized women and helen and the folks here thought it was male bashing? Now someone satirizes men and they think it is male bashing.
I thought it was funny - and it just proves the running joke I have with my boyfriend: if you give a man what Al Bundy would like, you can't go wrong. Generally, this boils down to sex and a good sandwich ...
At least the author of these jokes didn't see man as one dimensional.
I'll give you women a hint, good food, for me any way, keeps me happier much longer than good sex. (And, there's no such thing as bad sex.)
It is a joke, albeit not very funny one, tired humor, etc. Now, did you hear the one about the blonde on the airplane?
dadvocate: As the saying goes, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."
And I can't resist a relevant quote from The Stepford Wives: "She cooks as good as she looks, Ted."
Anonymous 11:25 makes an interesting point: satires of men is male bashing, and satires of women is also male bashing. It reminds me of the guy who looks at the shrink's inkblots and says "sex" for every one.
Anon wrote: "It reminds me of the guy who looks at the shrink's inkblots and says "sex" for every one."
The correct punchline is that the patient says "They are doing it" for every Rorschach card and the Psychiatrist says "I have the results. You are obsessed with sex." The patient looks at him and says "Me obsessed? You are the one with the dirty pictures."
Indeed. Figuring out just who sees sexism in every comment can be tricky.
Guess I can't resist these while I'm here:
Q: Why are women's feet smaller than men's?
A: So they can stand closer to the stove.
Q: How do you fix a woman's watch?
A: You don't. There's a clock on the stove.
In actuality, I'm glad I'm married to a woman who LOVES to cook, so it would be kind of strange to NOT see her behind the stove at some point during the day. In fact, we're moving to a new house and we've spent the last four nights working on getting the kitchen in shape.
And we're getting a new stove, too. Yes, it does have a clock.
Ok I am laughing, but I feel a little guilty while doing it!
Trey
Four college friends were so confident that the weekend before finals, they decided to go up to Dallas and party with some friends up there. They had a great time. However, after all the partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Austin until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided to find their professor after the final and explain to him why they missed it.
They explained that they had gone to Dallas for the weekend with the plan to come back and study but, unfortunately, they had a flat tire on the way back, didn't have a spare, and couldn't get help for a long time. As a result, they missed the final.
The Professor thought it over and then agreed they could make up the final the following day. The guys were elated and relieved.
They studied that night and went in the next day at the time the professor had told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test booklet, and told them to begin.
They looked at the first problem, worth 5 points. It was something simple about free radical formation. "Cool," they thought at the same time, each one in his separate room. "This is going to be easy."
Each finished the problem and then turned the page. On the second page was written:
(For 95 points): Which tire?
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