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Please settle an argument

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Rachaelrachael · 03/03/2023 18:20

Please settle an argument. Just been sent this by my husband who thinks this is funny and that I'm being over sensitive. Thoughts please?

Please settle an argument
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Dacadactyl · 03/03/2023 18:38

Alargeoneplease89 · 03/03/2023 18:36

I think its funny too ... I guarantee if there was a bloke equivalent the offended ones would laugh and say DH had no humour if it was a reverse.

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This is my take on it. I could come up with one on men (if I could be bothered) BUT, it would be a joke.

Cornelious2011 · 03/03/2023 18:38

I chuckled a little. I wouldn't be annoyed if my dh sent it to me.

Partyandbullshit · 03/03/2023 18:39

Tell him his funny = boring and lazy oaf who has the sophistication of a 2yo laughing at his own farts

Theunamedcat · 03/03/2023 18:39

Tbh the Knight in shining armour is kinda accurate

But everything else is nasty trash

7Worfs · 03/03/2023 18:40

TheBigWangTheory · 03/03/2023 18:34

Calling women greedy lazy fat cunts is not offensive?

WTF is wrong with you?

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It’s a joke about embellishing online dating profiles. It’s crude and a bit cringe. I don’t find it funny, and I don’t get exercised about it. The Internet is full of useless stuff like that. It’s ‘meh’.

HTH.

shopmyfeelings · 03/03/2023 18:43

I'm not offended because it says far more about the idiots who create and share it than women.

I would judge very harshly anyone who sent/showed that to me.
My husband would never share something like that but if he did I'd seriously question whether we were still suited.

wonderofu · 03/03/2023 18:44

I think it's funny.

LaughingCat · 03/03/2023 18:49

I chuckled. Soz. 😂

I would compile one back:

’Distinguished gent’ - 20 years older than profile claim…

’Knows how to ‘treat’ a lady’ - probably couldn’t find the spot with fecking GPS…

Any more?

Riapia · 03/03/2023 18:50

boomer humour

I find that expression even more offensive.
😁😁😁

Fromage · 03/03/2023 18:50

You're married to a pig. Sorry.

UthredofBattenberg · 03/03/2023 18:52

I don't find it funny personally, but I'm sure there is an equivalent floating around about men

furryfrontbottom · 03/03/2023 18:53

Pathetically unfunny and disgusting. If he had shown you that on your first date, would there have been a second date?

NellietheElephantpackedhertrunks · 03/03/2023 18:53

Funny until it got to the cunt part.

Galadriel90 · 03/03/2023 18:57

Your husband is a misogynist.

Shoxfordian · 03/03/2023 18:58

How embarrassing to be married to a misogynist

VladmirsPoutine · 03/03/2023 19:03

It's also grating that he considers you "over sensitive" because you dislike it.

What a way to have it confirmed that you're married to a misogynist.

Johnisafckface · 03/03/2023 19:03

I actually know quite a few men that believe a lot of that nonsense. I actually dated one and he was a true prick, and actually fit most of those descriptions himself.

Irrelevantdata · 03/03/2023 19:03

shopmyfeelings · 03/03/2023 18:43

I'm not offended because it says far more about the idiots who create and share it than women.

I would judge very harshly anyone who sent/showed that to me.
My husband would never share something like that but if he did I'd seriously question whether we were still suited.

This. My DH would go so far down in my estimation I would have the permanent ick if he sent me this.

SummerHouse · 03/03/2023 19:05

I feel lke its been created by someone who has not had much success with online dating. Now I wonder why that could be....

Namechangethisevening · 03/03/2023 19:07

I think it's hilarious! I can see myself in quite a few of those 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thehop · 03/03/2023 19:09

ChickenDhansak82 · 03/03/2023 18:26

I laughed! It's kinda funny! 🤣🤣🤣

(Female in early 40s)

I wouldn't be offended and it wouldn't bother me.

Snap!

MyGrandmaLizzie · 03/03/2023 19:09

Let's do a list for what men put on their OLD profile.....

Onnabugeisha · 03/03/2023 19:12

🤣😂 I think they’re pretty funny. And no, my thinking that doesn’t poof misogynists into existence to harm women and girls. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen something similar for men’s lonely heart adverts.

alwaysmovingforwards · 03/03/2023 19:21

I think it's internet fodder, but it'll certainly get the 'professionally offended' on MN clutching their pearls and throwing labels around.

TheBigWangTheory · 03/03/2023 19:24

alwaysmovingforwards · 03/03/2023 19:21

I think it's internet fodder, but it'll certainly get the 'professionally offended' on MN clutching their pearls and throwing labels around.

Do you think those tired, misogynistic, phrases are funny? They're not.