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Why the joke is now on men |
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 Why the joke is now on men
Since the feminist movement came into power some four decades ago, men have been the butt of countless jokes, but woe betide any man who decides to get his own back with the women. Men-bagging has become a popular pastime among females, with men often portrayed as self-obsessed, hopeless, lazy, aggressive, smelly and clueless. They can’t cook, won’t clean, don’t listen and refuse to ask for directions. Even the media and marketers have jumped on the men-bagging bandwagon, while sexist-joke emails at his expense now take up a considerable amount of cyberspace much to the amusement of the fairer sex in particular. Man jokes are based around tiresome generalisations and gender-based stereotypical myths but at the end of the day, does this phenomenon have an effect on men?
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