I'm uncomfortable about the tone of some of the posts.
But as I recently reminded myself on another thread, it is absolutely essential that women reserve the right to laugh at men, even cruelly, just as they laugh at us.
Women are constantly being mocked by men, just ask any skinny or overweight teenage girl, middle aged woman or old woman how often a man has said something vile to her about her looks, not once in her lifetime, but constantly. Men are really horribly cruel to women about our appearance and no-one notices the shocking cruelty of it. When women do it to men, the way we sometimes do here on Mumsnet, it is noticed and condemned and women feel deeply uncomfortable about it.
Because the other way round, it is taboo. That aposite quote, that men 's biggest fear of women, is that we'll laugh at them, while women's biggest fear of men, is that we'll kill them, has actually set up a scenario where when we laugh at men, it's almost perceived as on the same level as a man killing us. In fact, when you get a man murdering his wife because she laughed at him, the Daily Mail et al will show very clearly where their sympathies lie.
So I'd just like women to remember that, when they chastise other women for laughing at men. Laughing at men is a political issue.