Is this merely funny, or is it...well, hostile?

[Jackpine Radical]

It's an email I got, & I wonder what kind of reaction I would receive if sent something like this around about the stereotypical foibles of women.

> Fall Classes for Men at
>
>

THE
>
> ADULT LEARNING CENTER
>
> REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED
> by Monday, March 12, 2007
>
> NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL
> OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM.
>
>
> Class 1
> How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
> Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM .
>
> Class 2
> The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
> Round Table Discussion.
> Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.
>
>
> Class 3
> Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.
> Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.
>
> Class 4
> Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
> Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.
>
>
> Class 5
> Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
> Examples on Video.
> Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning
> at 7:00 PM
>
> Class 6
> Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
> Help Line Support and Support Groups.
> Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM
>
>
> Class 7
> Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
> Open Forum .
> Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.
>
>
> Class 8
> Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
> Graphics and Audio Tapes.
> Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
>
>
> Class 9
> Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
> Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined.
>
>
> Class 10
> Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
> Driving Simulations.
> 4 weeks, Saturday's noon , 2 hours.
>
>
> Class 11
> Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
> Online Classes and role-playing .
> Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined
>
>
> Class 12
> How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
> Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
> Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM .
>
>
> Class 13
> How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
> Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
> Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.
>
>
> Class 14
> The Stove/Oven--What It Is and How It Is Used.
> Live Demonstration.
> Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.
>
>
> Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Auto Shop for Women

Lesson 1:

"Does it drive all right?" is not a viable diagnostic question.

[realisticphish]

2. hmm

i see the direction this thread could take... :evilgrin:

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I would not discourage its taking such a direction.

I don't feel very witty myself tonight or I'd try to write something.

[reyd reid reed]

4. Why not?

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Because

It doesn't mean anything. :shrug:

[reyd reid reed]

9. Oh, but it could.

It's all in the inflection, y'know...

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Okay, then

I'll say it the way my mom said it.

"Duz it drahv awl raht?"



Still doesn't mean anything. :shrug:

[reyd reid reed]

15. Well, that's 'cause you're thinking

'mom'.

So of course it doesn't mean anything.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. It doesn't mean anything

when I hear it in Ben Stein's voice, either. :shrug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. I think it is funny..

Is it Bullshit? Yes, do I care? No.. I make fun of the weird things women do all the time. My lack of outrage over every stupid little thing is going to add twenty years to my life.. And Windows sucks, Get a Mac.

[Dangerously Amused]

7. I think it's funny.

But I laugh at the ones about women with PMS, too.

Moreso 'cuz they're true.










Edited to correct egregious grammatic syntax error, since You-Know-Who is on the thread. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Isn't 'grammatic syntax' redundant?

:P

[Dangerously Amused]

14. No, because it could be used with respect to matters of architecture or calculi:

Main Entry: syn·tax
Pronunciation: \?sin-?taks\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French sintaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek, from syntassein to arrange together, from syn- + tassein to arrange
Date: 1574
1 a: the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses) b: the part of grammar dealing with this
2: a connected or orderly system : harmonious arrangement of parts or elements <the syntax of classical architecture>
3: syntactics especially as dealing with the formal properties of languages or calculi

Source: http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/syntax


Neener neener!


:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Aren't you glad

I asked?

[Dangerously Amused]

18. Smartass.

Now that IS redundant.







;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Not exactly

But it does go without saying.









Could I be an even bigger asshole, though? :rofl:

[Dangerously Amused]

21. Heh.

:7



:hi:

[wildhorses]

8. i think its funny

hostile but, funny

[petronius]

12. I think it's funny (and I'm a guy)

However, if the person who sent it to you has a history of sending you demeaning or derogatory jokes, and if you've expressed a desire not to receive them, then I'd consider it hostile. Otherwise, I'd just take it as a funny...

[hfojvt]

13. the former concensus was funny

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5543624

I think it's mildly offensive, and even more so that if it went the other way lots of people would not laugh.

As far as class 9 goes. In my experience the easiest way to find tourist is to ask somebody for directions ... "Uh, I don't live in this town."

[Kali]

19. Some of them are laugh out loud funny

7 in particular. I live with most of those guys. Hostile? If you are overly sensitive, I suppose.

[fizzgig]

22. i always get a laugh out of these

i'm a woman but would certainly benefit from some of these classes...

[Random_Australian]

23. I don't get it. At all. I have questions.

Why would a lobotomy help against cerebral atrophy? And what kind of asshole tells someone who can't find something to 'look in the right places'? That's such a nasty thing to do to a person.

I'm getting seriously weirded out here, and yes it does seem hostile, and I just can't see where the humour is supposed to be?

WHAT'S THE DAMN JOKE?


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And what the fuck is a laundry hamper?