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Daddima Thu 17-Nov-22 15:43:56

: A store that sells new husbands has opened in London where a woman may go to choose a husband.
Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this storeONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increases as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor or may choose to go up to the next floor but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.
On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men have jobs.
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love children.
'That's nice,' she thinks, 'but I want more.'

So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love children, and are extremely good-looking.

'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love children, are extremely good-looking, and do housework..

'Oh, mercy me!' she exclaims, 'I can hardly stand it!'

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love children, are extremely good-looking, do housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please.
Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

PLEASE NOTE:

To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opened a New Wives store just across the street.

The first floor has wives that love sex.

The second floor has wives that love sex, have money and like beer.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.

Mollygo Mon 21-Nov-22 12:43:05

Hithere

Hey, the one in the original post is a joke too, some posters say

I wanted to make the point that "jokes" can hide the most unacceptable behaviour and attitude and try to make it pass as acceptable.

Well you didn’t do that very well IMO.

Thanks LancashireGran for your post at 12:35. I couldn’t have put it better.

Hithere Mon 21-Nov-22 12:54:05

So a racist joke is unacceptable (I agree) but a misogynistic one is not?

FannyCornforth Mon 21-Nov-22 12:58:38

Wyllow I’m so sorry to hear of your situation. Very best wishes for the future thanks

Vintagejazz Mon 21-Nov-22 12:59:25

It depends on whether you think it misogynistic. In my opinion it pokes fun at both men and women.

Hithere Mon 21-Nov-22 13:02:25

This shows exactly where society stands - equality is very much a gap

Yes it is very mysoginitic and unacceptable - in my view
It displays women as asking for the bare minimum and be treated like human beings and men satisfying their own selfish personal priorities

After all, isnt all in the personal sense of humour, as other posters wrote?

Vintagejazz Mon 21-Nov-22 13:07:39

This thread really has reminded me that some gransnetters could start a row in an empty room.

I'm out.

FarawayGran Mon 21-Nov-22 13:53:02

Messages in this thread remind me of the reason I rarely contribute

Mollygo Mon 21-Nov-22 14:10:48

I’m out too. It’s run its course.
I thought the original one was funny, poking fun at both sexes. I wouldn’t find the racist one funny even if it wasn’t racist.

Maggieanne Mon 21-Nov-22 16:24:17

Thank you Aveline for your reply.

Oreo Mon 21-Nov-22 17:23:35

Vintagejazz

This thread really has reminded me that some gransnetters could start a row in an empty room.

I'm out.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

nanna8 Mon 21-Nov-22 23:32:25

There are a few stereotypes in here and they are not the ones who laughed at the joke,either.

Ro60 Tue 22-Nov-22 00:31:29

Ro60

😂 It's been a while since we had a Joke Thread anything to lighten the gloom is good - imo.
Rufus - ❤
(Apologies for harking back to my own post)

Ok. So, That's why we don't have Joke threads 😵
What did strike me was, if it was a Craft thread would we comment on how much we disliked the handywork? or pass on by? If it was gardening, would we comment on how environmental the choice was? Then there's Politics.........

If the subject doesn't suit why worry?


Etc. etc.