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In article <158@midas.UUCP> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>In article <529@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
>
>>                                 Just because you find women laughing
>>at sexist jokes doesn't mean that they (the jokes and the women) aren't
>>sexist.  Some of the most anti-X jokes I've ever heard have been told
>>by Xs.  For *all* X (that tell jokes).
>
>I don't understand. Are you trying to imply that Jews who tell the Jew-
>and-pizza joke are anti-semitic? And more importantly, that they shouldn't
>tell it?
>					Jeff Winslow
How *I* read it is that only the Xs can get away with telling anti-X jokes,
because anyone else who tells an anti-X joke is a crude, crass, socially
acceptable, inconsiderate, egocentric, xenophobic, boorish, cretin (or as
it is called colloquially, an "asshole.")  If, for instance I were to post
to this newsgroup the joke "How many feminists does it take to change a
lightbulb?", I'd have to put the statement "rm mailbox" in my .profile to
handle the flames.

Proof by demonstration -- how many engineer jokes have been put on the net
in net.jokes?  Everyone on the net is an engineer and knows that the poster
was an engineer, so there aren't any flames about jokes about incompetent
and geekish engineers.  Let some/*male*/one post a joke about feminists,....

Which is really a pity, since I LIKE anti-X jokes; they're funny!  Anyone know
any decent 3rd generation Finnish engineer from the far West jokes?

						Patrick Juola
						Hopkins Math
						{Originally from Boise, ID}

Q. How many Idahoans does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one; he simply screws potatoes into the socket until one lights....