Sylvia Archive: Gender Jokes

Join the Bad Girls’ chat and share a joke of your own.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Comments

  1. Roz Warren says:

    If it’s funny, you shouldn’t have to apologize to anyone.

  2. Shirley Ann says:

    Having worked at Social Security Administration in the 1970′s, I can verify that this is not a joke. It’s how they operated.

  3. Sharon says:

    I do not work for that Federal agency but I do work for one and, yes, telling the joke was wrong. She was representing Social Security at that conference.

    A woman who worked her way up to a senior position in the Federal government fought a very hard fight and knows better than to do this. I can see a senior administrator who is a political appointee doing this.

    Now, if the joke teller was a man, would anyone tell him to apologize ? I hope so.

  4. The joke might have been inappropriate, but publicly shaming her was more so. I’ve seen many inappropriate jokes in professional settings, but never a demand for an apology. Maybe because the jokes were told by men.

  5. Mickey M. says:

    Why are blond jokes one liners? So men can understand them. ?!

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