Help me school this prat at work

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IWD today, obvs, so one guy on our team work messaging chat (about 20 people on there) shared this pic. What banter eh.

I replied saying ‘sorry I don’t get it - can you explain the joke’, and he’s said that he will explain to me tomorrow at work, the delight that he is.

Cue others on the chat offering to book a meeting room, film it, send a company wide invite etc so we can all witness his explanation.

I feel like just watching him squirm in front of the whole team won’t be enough, so I wanted to plan a line of questioning or whatnot that would maximise the enjoyment for all involved, except for him, and not make me look like a humourless fun sponge in the process.

Ideas?

Are all “feminists” this po-faced!? It’s just a bit of levity. Lighten up guys.

Some fingers are superglued to the report button.

RadioGaGoo It’s called placating the professionally offended.

WhatToDoAboutThis2017. Sure. Whatever you want to think.

My uncle also posted this image I just 🙄

It can be funny and still be wholly inappropriate and sexist. Think of all the post-disaster jokes - they can make you laugh involuntarily, but would you claim that makes them ok?

RadioGaGoo Of course you’ll think otherwise, because you don’t want to address how sounding like a crazy person that’s taken things too far makes you look.

Are all “feminists” this po-faced!? It’s just a bit of levity. Lighten up guys.
Oh thanks-haven't been told to "cheer up love" for ages.

This picture has been circulating on social media all day, and I'm pretty sure more people are laughing more at the person who scrawled the note, and their poor grammar, than the fact us women are supposedly only fit for housework, on IWD.

His joke isn't funny and neither would it be funny to humiliate him. If you make a big deal out of it you give him a lot of power and head space.
Let him make a string of similar silly and derisory comments, then you have grounds for HR to pull him up on his attitude.

WhatToDoAboutThis2017. Yup. That's exactly it. You got me all figured out. Just like you have the OP's collegues all figured out. Without knowing a single person. That doesn't look crazy at all.

If you think it's acceptable then you can't be a very senior in a company.

Why? If it was a joke about a man, on the same level, I would find it funny too?

PS I actually own my own company and have 3 employees (all men) so I guess that would make me the most senior?

Ah come on its a bit of fun and in fairness, he has a point!!

Ash him if it was ironed would he understand what was written on it and the meaning behind it better

Answers yes - tell him he can do all your ironing whilst you explain

Answers No - ask him why he though it needed ironed in the first place then along with confused face

He didn't write this though did he?
He simply shared something he thought was funny.

It was a dick move to share it via a work based thing but its not like he actually wrote it.

www.suffolkgazette.com/news/international-womens-day-iron/

It was clearly meant in an ironic, humorous way.

Some of you need to seriously lighten up.

It's getting up in arms about this sort of crap when there are real issues in the world which is why so many people take the piss out of feminists.

I found it funny tbh.

Totally agree @mylearnedfriend

If you think this is actually funny enough to laugh at, you’re probably one of those people who watches Mrs Brown’s Boys and thinks it’s cute that your DP calls child care “baby sitting”.

I did laugh a little bit - sorry - and I'm quite a feminist

surely it was a 'thanks for offering, i'll leave the iron on your desk' moment

Yeah, I found it a bit funny (and I could tell you all about my intellectual credentials...but don’t feel the need to get into arguments about who has the biggest brain...)...but yeah, was mostly struck by the poor grammar (English language pedant here).

In our staff magazine this week, there was an article about IWD, followed by a patronising little paragraph about “...and to celebrate IWD, follow this link to read about how Jenny Managerofsomething became a high-flying civil servant in her corner of Randomdivision.” Reader, I did not.

Tell him that he should have gone to Specsavers