I wasn't crying Pat, just prodding people a bit. And you make the point, without saying it, that many if not all jokes are heartless and somehow dehumanizing, even the mature ones.
But now you have made me curious. I didn't think 2.26 was your sort of time of day. Are you up late, or up already?
I'm going to bed soon anyway.
By the way, I never liked cruel boastful talk about women although I am far from strait-laced as should be obvious. And actually a really good joke will destroy all prejudices for a moment or two however awful in spirit.
But I had sisters and a mother. Now I have eight female descendants as well as a wife and lots of friends who are women. I hate jokes about well-known women who are ugly or have defects of appearance. I can't help thinking about how it must feel for them.
I suppose this is just a thing I'm soppy about, like you with cats. And as with cats, it may be wasted sympathy in some cases.
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