Menstrual cycle....heehee

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A study in Wisconsin showed that the kind of male face a woman finds

> >attractive can differ depending on where a woman is in her menstrual

>cycle.

> >

> >For instance, if she is ovulating, she is likely to be attracted to men

> >with more rugged and masculine features.

> >

> >If she is menstruating, she is likely to be impressed by a man with a

> >scissors through his temple and a bat shoved up his ass.

>

Okay Ann42...here is a joke posted from Walt (EE2NP)...do you find this offensive...or maybe your HUSBAND might find it offensive. Hmmmmmmm. Let's cut the flaming regarding jokes...they are jokes, that is all.

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Mirror, mirror on the door Post #1

just a silly story I heard once.....but the visual is kinda funny. Hope you enjoy

One night a man and his wife were getting for bed. The wife had just finished taking a shower and towelled herself off. She suddenly threw the towel on the floor and said, "mirror, mirror on the door. I wish my breasts were size 44." Instantly, her breasts were size 44.

Naturally, her husband's eyes were about to bug out of his head. He jumped up, ran into the bathroom, and took a shower. After he finished drying off, he threw his towel on the floor and stood in front of the mirror. He exclaimed, "mirror, mirror on the door. I wish my member would touch the floor."

Instantly................his legs fell off!!!!

Walt

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Originally posted by gwenith

[it is not the information that is at fault but what the recipients choose to do with it. [/b]

Thanks Gwenith...you said it sooooooooo eloquently! :)

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Instantly................his legs fell off!!!!

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02-27-2003 10:22 PM [/b]

Since this was posted for my benefit :) , I figured I better respond. It sounds to me like Walt forgot the punchline. "Instantly...he fell down!" would be funnier to me. LOL!:chuckle

I'm sorry for being such a wet blanket but I've seen a tendency in the past few years to make violence toward men as the butt of jokes. They are our fathers, brothers, uncles, sons. Granted it's probably just the absurdity of the picture that makes people laugh.

The shower scene in Hitchcock's movie have caused some people to laugh (a woman is being stabbed to death in a shower), but it horrified me.

I have a very visual mind. When reading the above joke, I could picture the scissors through the man's head. Somehow I think the joke could have gotten across without that or the bat. Jokes don't have to be unnecessarily violent to be funny imho. Don't you think Walt's joke would have been just as funny if the guy just fell down? It touched the floor, right? Actually, you're not likely to hear either joke in reverse gender, unless you rewrite yourself. Violence toward men is VERY pc. Violence toward women is NOT PC.

Just because something makes you laugh, it doesn't mean it's okay.

I mean no personal offence to anyone please. As I said before it's the absurdity or outlandishness of a picture that often cause people to laugh. I've laughed myself as a sort of knee-jerk reaction at horrible jokes then caught myself. :eek:

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Ann42,

As I stated in the above post...this is/was a joke...nothing more. So please don't read into it or "visualize" anything different. It would probably be better for you...if you simply depressed the back button.

Again, I am not promoting violence towards men. I have a wonderful husband, kids, parents, 4 brothers, too many cousins to count, lots of aunts/uncles....and great friends, both male & female.

As far as the Alfred Hitchcock movie...well..it has been at least 15 -20 years since I have seen that movie....and I don't enjoy watching anything scary or those cut it em/slasher movies (so I don't watch them nor do I rent those kind of movies)....as far as the shower scene that you mentioned....well, I couldn't watch it...I ran out of the room...because I would most likely have nightmares. However, as you stated...I don't know any of my friends who would think the shower scene was funny.

Again...the joke that was posted was a JOKE...that is all. I guess I don't know anyone that would actually take this joke serious and/or literally. Again, I apologize & sorry that I may have offended you.

Take care.

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Originally posted by funnygirl_rn

Again...the joke that was posted was a JOKE...that is all. I guess I don't know anyone that would actually take this joke serious. Again, I apologize & sorry that I may have offended you.

Take care.

Don't worry about it, FunnyGirl. My example of laughing at that scene in Hitchcock's film probably missed the point I was trying to make since most people aren't idiotic enough to laugh at something that was never meant to be a joke. I'm honestly enjoying this subject and could talk much more about it. However, I expect you are tired of me. :o That's okay. Just remember. I like YOU just fine! :kiss:

I only had a problem with the joke, NOT YOU! :) Besides, I felt a little sorry for Walt, he being a lone ranger and all, so I decided to back him up. (Where is he anyway??)

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Specializes in correctional-CCHCP/detox nurse, DOULA-Birth Assist.

Walt lighten up, its only a joke.

As a mother of 2 very young men I would not want that to happen in a million years and I would stop a woman who was trying to do that to anyone, male or female.

"As a man looking to go into nursing as a second career, I think I'll have enough challenges and have to watch my back as it is. "

Have to say you do sound a little paranoid and it seems you have already started to dig some trenches before any war has been declared. You are already taking a me versus them stance.

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Originally posted by Ann42

Don't worry about it, FunnyGirl. My example of laughing at that scene in Hitchcock's film probably missed the point I was trying to make since most people aren't idiotic enough to laugh at something that was never meant to be a joke. I'm honestly enjoying this subject and could talk much more about it. However, I expect you are tired of me. :o That's okay. Just remember. I like YOU just fine! :kiss:

I only had a problem with the joke, NOT YOU! :) Besides, I felt a little sorry for Walt, he being a lone ranger and all, so I decided to back him up. (Where is he anyway??)

Thank you! :kiss As far as Walt's whereabouts...don't know...maybe in cognito due to all the PMSing women...just kidding! :devil: Forgive me Walt... :)

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OMG I laughed so hard i think I had my drink coming out of my nose...and my one son said.."kewl" :roll Laura LPN

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Specializes in Med-Surg, free clinic.

1) It seems that male bashing will never go out of style.

2) "Oh, Walt, you really have to be a woman to understand." This is a very debilitating comment. It says that because I have never experienced something, my comments and judgments about the topic are irrelevant. Well, I have never had a Billroth, or an arm amputated, but does that make my judgment and advice any less valid??? As a Med-surg nurse, I usually know far more about these and other things than the person having them.

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Originally posted by Ariko

1) It seems that male bashing will never go out of style.

Thank goddess cause I really need a hobby.

2) "Oh, Walt, you really have to be a woman to understand." This is a very debilitating comment. It says that because I have never experienced something, my comments and judgments about the topic are irrelevant. Well, I have never had a Billroth, or an arm amputated, but does that make my judgment and advice any less valid??? As a Med-surg nurse, I usually know far more about these and other things than the person having them.

Debilitating? Denigrating maybe. And it is feasible to give advice to those from a medical perspective and relate what you have seen others accomplish. So yes you may possess more empirical knowledge, however, staying with your example, you still have all limbs and can't have full knowledge of what an amputee experiences. The same way none of us can truly know what another is feeling physically, emotionally or spiritually.

Joking about men or any other subject for that matter is a release, a safety valve, all the people in our lives whom we love on occassion frustrate, exasperate, annoy, and just plain pizz us off. Laughing about it releases the tension and keeps folks sane. At least thats what the psychologists say...

Now MamaVal absolutely love your line under your name! heeehheee

Tres

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Specializes in ER CCU MICU SICU LTC/SNF.

Awwwwll, c'mon ladies. Stop bashing on Walt. If you suffer from the so-called PMS, we men have occasional RDS ----

Remote Deprivation Syndrome

Imagine misplacing one of this...

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eventually, we all get over our impetus :roll

:kiss

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Specializes in Step down, ICU, ER, PACU, Amb. Surg.
Originally posted by EE2NP

My wife will be 61 soon, and my daughters are ages 41, 33, 32, and 21. (I have a son who's 38 also.) Over the years I've seen many a period come and go (at least from a man's perspective). Over the years, I've given countless backrubs, fetched the heating pad, and made midnight runs down to the grocery store to pick up tampons, whatever. I've seen my daughters do their Jeckyll and Hyde routine with great regularity. I've seen how miserable they felt and I always tried to be the sympathetic, caring, dad.

But an important point made in our family and reinforced by my wife is that no matter how crummy you feel, it doesn't give you the right to indulge that "crumminess" and take it out on someone else.

She stressed that if there's an issue on some other matter then address it in the context of that issue and not use the fact that you feel rotten as a pretext to work the other issue. She always tried to bring this menstrual cycle issue to a higher level and tried to major on what was really important. She lead by example and I've always admired and honored her for that.

You know, I think my wife was pretty wise. Maybe that's why I love her so much.

Again, your point is well taken, but I stand by my earlier conviction.

Walt

Being the parent of a daughter and being female myself, I make every effort to keep my crankiness and grumpiness to myself and not take it out on some poor fella that was undeserving. I have tried to instill this philosophy to my daughter and for the most part it works quite well with the help of a bottle of Pamprin. However...making fun of an age old problem is a warped way, helps to ease the misery. It was not meant as a personal attack, EE2NP. It was just meant to shed a bit of levity on a miserable time of the month.....Your opinion is respected and noted but it still does not change the fact that I found it funny ina warped way. Please don't flame us for having a laugh....we find it great that you want to join the ranks of nursing and I think you will find that you will not have to watch your back as much as you think..... I am sure you will find that we will welcome you with open arms and heart and try to help you in your endeavors in nursing.

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