I invented the jokes on this page. If they're awful, I take full responsibility. If they're great, I take even more responsibility.
This one came to me after watching "Titanic":
Riddle: In the olden days it used to be "women and children
first" then men, then the crew. Now, however, we have feminists who consider
themselves men's equals in every way. In our brave new world, in what order do feminists
leave the ship?
Answer: It's a trick question. On a sinking ship, there are no feminists!
[Rats. I thought I was being original. I really did dream that last joke up after watching "Titanic." However, I saw on Per's MANifesto pages, dating back to 1997 but now defunct, his more succinct version: "There are no feminists when the lifeboats are lowered." He said it better.]
Riddle: When is a modern woman a
feminist? (Or, "When is a modern woman equal to men?")
Answer: Whenever she finds it convenient.
Riddle: What is the modern woman's
definition of "women's rights"?
Answer: Pretty much anything she and her girlfriends can dream up over
coffee.
A man goes to a half-price sale at a women's wear store, thinking to buy his wife a gift. The sale is a madhouse, and the man's every attempt to get hear a rack of clothes is frustrated by several women pushing in front of him. After a half an hour of trying to excuse himself and delicately work his way through the throngs of women, he squares his shoulders and begins elbowing his way toward the most promising merchandise. One woman, after being roughly shoved aside, snaps, "Why don't you act like a gentleman?"
"I've been acting like a gentleman for half an hour." he retorts, "Now I'm acting like a lady."
The dilemma currently facing the men's movement comes down to this: will those of us who are gentlemen continue to act like gentlemen and wait for the feminists to do the same, or will we give up on gentlemanly behaviour and start acting like feminists? The mythopoetic types have chosen the former path; more hard-edged masculists like me have chosen the latter.
