And this para from your post also might explain to Christopher, who continued, after the inherent demeaning implications to the content of the women's arguments or friendly discussions about books, for example, had been pointed out to him, to defend the menopausal references, likening them to a woman's own comment, about herself, about being in a bad mood from PMS, for example. The "truth in humor" particularly struck me in connection to the "Menopausal Moments Thread" crack on RWET that received such apprciative ROFL's from PROLIFE and JLA.
ALthough I am no longer reading BR, before I left I did see Joe's post about charting lunar cycles with certain posters or something- perhaps this is the perfect example of your reference to truth in humor, though I found his post anything but amusing.
Women are very offended by this type of "humor", I think, because as you say, it so very often is NOT humor, but a reflection of what the person truly believes. |
