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I'm the person he's responding to and I wasn't actually pissed.  But I don't find his "pretend sexism" funny either.  He should keep his day job. [/quote]

Making bad jokes is my day job.
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Maybe.  But I wonder why you're so comfortable making "pretend sexist" jokes (i.e., saying something really sexist and then saying "just kidding")?  Would you feel comfortable making a really racist comment and then saying "just kidding"?  I think I know the answer.[/quote]Lighten up.  Muslima made a joke too and said just kidding but I'm sure Jeff really is.[/quote]

If "lightening up" means "ignore it when people think it's cool to be sexist", then no, I don't think I will.[/quote] :roll:   Even the stodgiest person could see that was a male chauvinist joke meant to elicit a laugh.  I consider whose telling the joke.  I thought Jeff was an anti-feminist, woman hating person, I would be on your bandwagon.  But you are really over reaching.[/quote]

You think what you want, and I'll use my judgment about it.  I don't think Jeff is a woman-hater, but I do think he was being subtly, perhaps unintentionally sexist.  I think that people of good will do that sometimes.  (Just like I think people of good will are sometimes subtly and unintentionally racist.)  And I do think there's no way he would have made an analogous racist "joke".  This is certainly not super upsetting or the biggest injustice in the world (heck, it happened on a thread about innocent civilians being gunned down for making cartoons), but I don't think that means I shouldn't point it out.
But I find it interesting that I'm hearing some pretty common codes that women hear a lot whenever they point out sexism:  "calm down, you're too sensitive, lighten up".  That's pretty much out of the mansplaining handbook.
But I'm busy, so I'll leave this be for now.  Just don't interpret silence as agreement!  This overly sensitive, hysterical girl's still got a chip on her shoulder about this :)
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