How does this birthday card make you feel?

[Fretful]

Without giving any background as I would like some unbiased opinions, please

[IncrediblySadToo]

Hopefully, it won't be long before these cards are made illegal and selling them carries a punitive sentence: a gaol sentence would concentrate the mind of those who want to be slyly aggressive to women. After all, as another poster said, we wouldn't laugh at racism, why sexism?

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Get a bloody grip

[Crunchymum]

I think it's pointless. What is it actually for? As in what occasion?

[IncrediblySadToo]

It predates The Royal Family and Noel Gallagher by about a million years.

It
Is
A
Joke

You snowflakes are bloody hard work. Seriously. You’d get offended on your own in a phone box

[StoneofDestiny]

A very old fashioned 'joke' that would have raised a smile decades ago.

[PirateWeasel]

Not funny, not clever. The bloke just comes across as a bit of a tit. I'd LTB.

[StealthPolarBear]

Yes I agree its a bit dated. My mother in law... Jokes have thankfully fallen out of fashion. But it's a joke about a thoughtless man. Not violence.

[Champagnebrain]

That's a card from 1978, right?

[windysowindy]

You snowflakes are bloody hard work.
What does snowflake mean?

[GreyHare]

Why do people start a thread posing a crap question and then never come back and answer it.

[NightmareDaemon]

It’s dull from a humour point of view.

It would a terrible card from a spouse to give their partner.

[vintanner]

It's NOT a B/card!

Very old joke.

[zippey]

Casual misogyny - yes
Humerous - yes
Offensive - yes

We all have different tastes in comedy, there is no right or wrong answer here.

Rising Damo was a classic. Love thy neighbor had it’s good points as did the Alf Garnett shows.

Sometimes the old jokes are the best. People recognise Les Dawson as a good comedian of his time.

[AWishForWingsThatWork]

It's not funny at all. I'd go so far as to say it's quite nasty, and definitely a nod to treating women as not worthy of much care or consideration.

[Newadventure]

Thing is. I can see that it's supposed to be a joke but can't help how it automatically makes me feel.

(I'm now imagining ever being bought this card and the well meaning buying looking on with glee waiting for the punchline to drop only for me to turn red 🤣)

[Flowersintheatticconversion]

I think it’s mildly amusing but it doesn’t make me feel anything. It’s just a card.

[Weirdlookingbricks]

I'd just think whoever sent it was a twat.

[Serialweightwatcher]

It's a silly joke, that's why it's on the card ... can't get offended at silly nonsense ... life is getting very boring with all this pc crap ... maybe we shouldn't say 'Happy' birthday any more because there's too much to stress about instead

[AriadnePersephoneCloud]

I get the joke but don't find it funny. I have no feelings towards it I 5th er than what a waste of card 😁

[Nomorechickens]

I would say it's massively offensive and sexist and not at all funny (because there are still men around who have this sort of attitude). maybe if it was an in-joke between a couple and ironic ... still no.

[Fishdoggy]

I get it but don't find it funny. A bit poignant as I remember my Ex setting the heating to go off when he went to work and to come on again when he returned. I was at home with 2 very young children at the time.

[puppy23]

Really doesn't bother me at all, in fact I sent it to my DH as I know he'd find it funny

[Fretful]

Oh wow, thank you for the responses - an interesting mix!

The context, then: sent to me by an in-law for my birthday, who is aware I'm in an emotionally/psychologically abusive and manipulative marriage.

Maybe I'm over sensitive, but I felt sick when I read it - more because they know what I'm living with than the actual content, if that makes sense.

[CinnabarRed]

My dad used to actually do that - switch the heating off any time he wasn’t at home - and I found the card surprisingly upsetting. I’d not like to receive it.

[ooooohbetty]

It's funny. It's not sexist. It would work with either the man or the woman saying they were going to the pub

[CinnabarRed]

Fishdoggy - yes, that’s exactly what my dad did.