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Reminds me of Hillary Clinton ruminating over whether she should have told Trump to “back off, you creep!” on the debate stage. (By the way, it was Clinton who repeatedly violated Trump’s space, not the other way around.)
I take exception to this statement. The joke is funny.
What if he’d said “Men’s Underwear”?
Had he raised his fist and said; “Down with stifling patriarchy! Equity in pay and law. Third floor, please, though I clearly have no expectations of your servitude. In fact, please allow me.” All would have been well. He could have cast aspersions to the other white males for bonus points.
Or “Men’s Lingerie”?
I’ll have to remember that one.
Maybe Professor Sharoni should wear a button that says “That’s Not Funny!” so everyone knows to never make a wisecrack around her.
I don’t quite get the joke. Is it an old line from when we had more department stores or something ?
I also can’t get over this new Victorianism. Back about 1970, with the changes of the sexual revolution and before Women’s Lib became a really big thing, men were often no longer careful of what they said in front of women and often made really lewd jokes and remarks casually in mixed company. (I kind of think women’s interest in feminism was, in part, women’s unacknowledged dissatisfaction with the new reality that they weren’t any longer owed a certain courtesy, as far as males were concerned. Women’s reaction to the change said, in effect: “Well, all right then, if you’re going to leave your Play boy magazines lying around, or joke about, or comment on, women’s bodies in front of me, please don’t even hold the damned door for me. I’m getting a job and going back to school.) But the joke about the floor for women’s lingerie seems really mild. I mean, do we start covering piano legs again ? And then to act like he practically physically assaulted her by writing her. Are we going back to the custom that a gentleman doesn’t speak to a lady, the way he would to another man, unless they’ve been properly introduced ?
Is there some new, strange hysteria among academic types about what certain norms should now be ?
Today only! Bras half off in the lingerie department! (I got a million of ’em.)
Yes, it comes from a time when big city department stores covered multiple floors and someone might tell the elevator operator to take them to the floor with men’s shoes, toys, small appliances, books, or whatever.
I also thought it was a pretty funny joke.
I think it was certainly a harmless joke. I don’t see how anyone sane could be offended or imagine he intended to offend anyone.
What–is that like a joke or something? [quickly closes dresser drawer]
Not quickly enough.
The operator would actually announce the present and upcoming floors and departments to the customers therein. Thus all of the “third floor, women’s lingerie and gardening supplies!”-type jokes in old movies.
There was a Daffy Duck cartoon with Daffy posing as a department store elevator operator announcing something like “brooms, looms, rooms and little black ducks.” I can’t find it, though.
He at fault for working for such idiots. Tell them where they can shove their censure and get a real job.