Comment about women from a woman friend - true, false, comment?

It’s kind of funny, but except for the sperm=baby part a guy could do all those things, too…

Is it fair? I dunno. It’s just funny to me.

Very funny. I will be copying that quote. I think there is some truth to it.

I find it humorous and like to think it’s true…but I agree with @frankie-men can do those things just as well. But I do think it’s a good affirmation for a woman that miaght need one.

Sounds very outdated and kind of sexist to me.

Somewhat sweet, but very stereotypical.

I don’t think it’s funny because I consider it generalizing and I am so, so very sick of gender generalizations. So, if I don’t do the things your friend says, what, am I not a woman? Frankly, I hate that shit.

Is that like getting fifty-fifty for twenty?

Sounds simplistic and sexist to me; the kind of thing I get sent in mass e-mails by erstwhile friends.

@janbb, I was going to say the same thing! I can’t stand those emails, but I can’t bear to be snippy to the 83-year-old great-aunts who send me these things. I know quite a few women whose lives have shown them to be the opposite of those homilies.

The crap part is funny but the rest could be deemed very sweet from one love to another.

I’ve read that before. There is some truth to it. There’s also a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the female of the species, here are a couple stanzas;

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
‘Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man’s timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn’t his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other’s tale –
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Somewhat…sometimes we’ll throw that in for free ;)

Stereotype. I can’t cook at all.

I think it’s funny because it’s stereotypical and I can laugh at my gender without rancor.

@faye I agree. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, who CAN we laugh at? Some people take life way too seriously.

@jbfletcherfan I can laugh at you. :-)

@janbb Yes…and you do. Quite often. :D

Of course, I can laugh at most everything!! So many people take stuff too seriously!! and in 2 yrs they can’t remember what it was.

I love that….......hahahahahahahahahahaha

@hungryhungryhortence I totally agree with you.

I agree that the quote is quaint, stereotypical, and simplistic. I thought the ‘crap’ part was really funny but overall the generalizations are hard to swallow.

I wanted to see if I was maybe reading too much into it or if I should have just enjoted the intended humour. I tend to be very analytical about things, even when I should just enjoy the joke!

Thanks for validating my approach!

Nah, I don’t buy it – it’s supposed to make you feel better about making gendered comments but in reality one just shouldn’t.

Funny except for the money part you left out that is the spoiler, The crap/TOS part…painfully funny….ouch!!

I thought it was funny. I didn’t see anything that can be considered gender predjudice.
Can women make babies with sperm? Yep!
Can women love? Yep!
Can women make a meal out of food? Yep! (Is it always tasty or good? NOPE) Not every female can cook well but that wasn’t in the comment.
Can a woman make a house a home? Sure can if she wants too.
Can a woman take crap only for so long before flinging it back. Sure if she wants to.

Some people need to stop, take a deep breath and pull out that stick and learn to laugh.

I enjoyed it and I felt it to be true at least with me.

There is some truth to it. However it is also mostly a relentlessly “positive” take on the personality trait. To be even close to accurate aka fair it should give the downside of this “trait” a bit more air time.

@jbfletcherfan The problem isn’t that people can’t laugh at themselves; the problem is this simply isn’t true, it’s a stereotypical generalization. What’s funny about that? I can laugh at myself, but this isn’t me.

@Pandora um, it’s always easy to say ‘just laugh’ when someone opposes what you think is a good idea – but none of us were angry or not laughing, just saying what we think…or are you somehow able to look through the computer screen and see our emotions/

@Trillian Thanks for the reference to Kipling. Have never seen that, but boy is it true.

I don’t think anyone here has ever accused me of not having a sense of humor, it doesn’t mean you have to find everything funny.