"Michelle Obama told a joke about men they didn't find funny. That's hilarious"

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-08-08 21:30

Article here. Excerpt:

'When I saw that Michelle Obama joked at the US-Africa Leaders Summit this week that “women are smarter than men”, I prepared myself for backlash. And – what do you know? – Politico wrote that the First Lady had “engaged in a battle of the sexes”, anti-feminist author and Fox News contributor Suzanne Venker called it a “sexist and elitist display”, and the headline at Business Standard read “Michelle Obama claims women are smarter than men”. As if it were a serious assertion rather than a joking aside!
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But when the First Lady made the quip – at an event with former first lady Laura Bush, while addressing the spouses of African leaders – it wasn’t a humorless dig at men. It was a light-hearted moment of girl-power on the outskirts of a conference for heads of state that is incredibly male-dominated.

Actually, I wish she’d said it with the intention of mocking men – with all that political, economic and social power they’ve cornered by marginalizing women, I think they can take a light ribbing. (I’d prefer a total overthrow of the patriarchy, but I’ve always had champagne tastes.)

Besides, laughter is the best medicine, especially when it’s a guffaw redirected right in the face of sexists.'

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Besides, these sexist men should take a dose not only of their own medicine but need to see the kind of GRRRL POWER the FL is all about: Women.Are.Smarter.Period

Nothing wrong with that. Actually, ppl have been saying that abt women for a very long time. Funny though that if they actually believed this, one'd expect to see most of our male pols not getting re-elected or elected at all. After all, most adults in the US are women. So if 'everyone' knows this is true, why hasn't it happened by now?

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-08-09 05:04

Typical feminist response.

Women gets called out for acting sexist, and feminists respond with the old rationalization hamster. "That's not sexist, it was just a joke, omg! Men are the dominant group so when they're insulted, it's not sexism... derpa derpa derp."

But if a male pol ever said men are smarter than women, jokingly no less, her panties would be in an epic bunch. If anything, this woman's comments are a counter-example to Michelle's assertion.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sat, 2014-08-09 20:12

that is a good joke coming from this one.

didn't I see some recent pieces about this clown's college football days?

visible adam's apple?
head width to shoulders width ratio?
third finger longer than first?

science says ????? male.

rumor has it, he was a pretty good college player (2 years) until he quit.
had some male/female issues.
don't believe?

but then again, maybe a layered 1961 computer generated b.c. really exists too.
anything I see about these 2 clowns is suspect, at best.

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Submitted by daveinga on Sun, 2014-08-10 16:04