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Easter at Arapiles 3-Apr-2013 At 11:53:51 PM simey

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On 3/04/2013 Wendy wrote:

>What, proclaiming sexual prowess with women somehow lead to phone numbers
>and physical appearance? You mean it's actually all related to stereotypical
>male fascination with lesbians and either wanting to watch, take part or
>convert? You aren't doing your case a lot of favours there.

You are exactly right. The whole notion of male fascination with lesbians (whether it exists or not) was the trend of the joke. You have chosen to interpret it the way you have, but I saw the humour as ridiculing guys more than anything.

>Basically, i read the thread over a couple of times, and I was uncomfortable
>with the direction of some of it. I don't think where it went is unrelated
>to the sex of the offenders and I think these sorts of jokes and comments
>are made frequently, without anyone consciously intending to be sexist,
>but in a world where men and women are judged differently on the basis
>of appearance and sexual behaviour, they are. Maybe if you'd been on the
>other end of these standards your entire life, you'd be a little more uncomfortable
>about them too.

I'm uncomfortable too if I see or read things with sexist overtones towards women, but I don't see this as an example of sexism. The implied humour is that guys are so desperate for sex that no matter how undesirable the described people might be, they still spark our interest.