A Day Without a Woman General Strike

[Guest MormonGator]

Has anyone else heard about this? 

I get what they are trying to do, and I don't want to start a gender war. But if you can voluntarily leave your job without a good reason for a day you are lucky and entitled. Not oppressed. 

Thoughts? 

[NeuroTypical]

Heh.  It worked so well with the "day without an immigrant" people...

[Guest MormonGator]

Do you want get fired? Because this is how you get fired. A women working at Wal Mart or in child care will get fired for this. A women working some cushy government job-no one will care. 

[Guest]

There is only one man in our office, so pretty much what would happen is he'd get his work done, and the rest of us would have 2 days' worth of work to do the next day. 

[zil]

Huh.  I'd have to commit suicide to get "a day without a woman".  That doesn't seem likely to accomplish much.  On the plus side, I could just leave the dusting for someone else to worry about.

[Guest MormonGator]

12 minutes ago, zil said:

Huh.  I'd have to commit suicide to get "a day without a woman".  That doesn't seem likely to accomplish much.  On the plus side, I could just leave the dusting for someone else to worry about.

Hey, I do all the dusting in the compound young lady!

[Guest]

And actually, our business serves women, so women would suffer if we went on strike.

[Guest MormonGator]

5 minutes ago, Eowyn said:

And actually, our business serves women, so women would suffer if we went on strike.

That's a good point. if you strike, you hurt your female co-workers who have to do more work. Obviously not "you= @Eowyn" 

[Ironhold]

I've already been seeing people referring to the event as "A Day Without A Sandwich", much the same way that the Women's March was referred to as the "National Sandwich Shortage". 

That should say how seriously people are taking this. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Ironhold said:

I've already been seeing people referring to the event as "A Day Without A Sandwich", much the same way that the Women's March was referred to as the "National Sandwich Shortage". 

That should say how seriously people are taking this. 

I'm no feminist, but that's pretty jerky.

[Guest MormonGator]

29 minutes ago, Ironhold said:

I've already been seeing people referring to the event as "A Day Without A Sandwich", much the same way that the Women's March was referred to as the "National Sandwich Shortage". 

That should say how seriously people are taking this. 

From one guy to another, the sandwich jokes are very 2005, and they weren't funny back then either. 

Edited March 6, 2017 by MormonGator

[zil]

1 minute ago, MormonGator said:

...I'm not a hardcore...

A few sit-ups now and then might help with that problem.

[Blackmarch]

2 hours ago, MormonGator said:

Has anyone else heard about this? 

I get what they are trying to do, and I don't want to start a gender war. But if you can voluntarily leave your job without a good reason for a day you are lucky and entitled. Not oppressed. 

Thoughts? 

They better hope theyd have a more merciful boss than i would be.

Edited March 7, 2017 by Blackmarch

[Rob Osborn]

I applaud all those courageous women who will stand up tomorrow, go to work, and snub this ridiculous strike. Husbands and wives stand together, not against each other in conquering both professional and domestic duties. I have never taken a day off work to protest, I enjoy work, its a blessing whether I am cleaning a community used toilet or overseeing a project. It tires me to see the wedges get driven in deeper in this feminist agenda gender war.

[Ironhold]

On 3/6/2017 at 5:16 PM, zil said:

A few sit-ups now and then might help with that problem.

Takes more than just sit-ups to get someone's core going. 

[unixknight]

On 3/6/2017 at 6:14 PM, MormonGator said:

From one guy to another, the sandwich jokes are very 2005, and they weren't funny back then either. 

Not gonna lie, I thought those were hilarious, and so did my wife. 

You have to laugh at the absurdity of it.  A strike like this is being called for by people who think that the vast majority of women will participate, and feel the same way they do.  My wife knows I respect and honor her, and isn't threatened by sandwich jokes, or any jokes like this.  The other day I came home from work and found her in the kitchen, unpacking (we just moved into our new house!)  and I chuckled.  She asked me what was funny and I noted that she was standing there, literally barefoot and pregnant.  (Due in June)  She thought that was funny too.  One of these SJWs would probably have a seizure. 

We joke about these stereotypes as a way of taking power away from them.  So what if my wife makes me a sandwich while she's barefoot and pregnant in our kitchen?  Does that make me a sexist?  Does that repress her?  Or could it just be that she loves to take care of her family in that way?  Should I forbid her from doing it for fear of somebody thinking ill of us, or should I accept her love the way she presents it, and if that's somehow stereotypical, so be it? 

We talk politics in my house a lot, but what we don't do is allow other peoples' politics to dictate how we live or love each other.

Know how awesome she is?  This morning she sent me off to work with two sandwiches.  Counter-protesting is fun, too.

[Guest]

You don't have to be threatened by sandwich jokes to find them immature or offensive.

Kind of like how neither my husband nor I is threatened by TV's image of the inept, bumbling father figure, but we find it pretty stupid and offensive. Harmful, even, because it perpetuates a stereotype that does no one any good, and drives a wedge between men and women.

[unixknight]

Just now, Eowyn said:

You don't have to be threatened by sandwich jokes to find them immature or offensive.

Kind of like how neither my husband nor I is threatened by TV's image of the inept, bumbling father figure, but we find it pretty stupid and offensive. Harmful, even, because it perpetuates a stereotype that does no one any good, and drives a wedge between men and women.

Perfectly fine, but we don't find that it drives a wedge between us.  We laugh together.

[Guest]

I mean society in general, not just couple by couple.

Frankly I can't see any kind of general authority making sandwich jokes, either.

[unixknight]

Just now, Eowyn said:

I mean society in general, not just couple by couple.

 

That's fair, but it also goes both ways.  A joke like that only drives a wedge if you allow it to.

Just now, Eowyn said:

Frankly I can't see any kind of general authority making sandwich jokes, either.

I don't see the relevance. 

 

[anatess2]

56 minutes ago, Eowyn said:

I mean society in general, not just couple by couple.

Frankly I can't see any kind of general authority making sandwich jokes, either.

This is a major problem with SJWs.  They just suck the life out of everything.  Can't make a joke, can't take a joke because it's.... offensive.  Comedy are SUPPOSED to diffuse serious discussions into the realm of comedy by taking a serious issue and making a joke out of it.  It is especially important for the male species.  It is their outlet.  Women cry, men crack jokes.  Yes, men can cry too, but that's not their natural instinct.  Humor is.  Making light out of something serious.  A happy husband has a wife with a good sense of humor.

This is how the alt-Right was born.  Internet kids spanning the tail-end of the Millenial generation all the way through to the Gen Z's - noticed there's no outlet for serious matters into comedy anymore, at least not for the right-wingers.  Leftists can make a joke out of everything, roast anyone, provide a comical outlet to diffuse seriousness on the public square.  Right-wingers can't.  Because... they're accused of being offensive.  So, they made the most egregious jokes out of leftists by blurring the line between seriousness and satire.  So, the left makes a serious charge that conservatives are racists, so instead of shutting up, the alt-right went and made even more egregious racist trolling to get a rise out of the left.  That's how they got the reputation of being white supremacists.

Anyway, you say you're not a feminist.  But you've perfected the feminist virtue signaling routine down pat.  Even doing the highest form of virtue signaling - invoking the name of moral leadership of the highest order - to support your taking offense.  Congratulations!

 

Edited March 8, 2017 by anatess2

[Guest MormonGator]

1 hour ago, unixknight said:

Not gonna lie, I thought those were hilarious, and so did my wife. 

You have to laugh at the absurdity of it.  A strike like this is being called for by people who think that the vast majority of women will participate, and feel the same way they do.  My wife knows I respect and honor her, and isn't threatened by sandwich jokes, or any jokes like this.  The other day I came home from work and found her in the kitchen, unpacking (we just moved into our new house!)  and I chuckled.  She asked me what was funny and I noted that she was standing there, literally barefoot and pregnant.  (Due in June)  She thought that was funny too.  One of these SJWs would probably have a seizure. 

We joke about these stereotypes as a way of taking power away from them.  So what if my wife makes me a sandwich while she's barefoot and pregnant in our kitchen?  Does that make me a sexist?  Does that repress her?  Or could it just be that she loves to take care of her family in that way?  Should I forbid her from doing it for fear of somebody thinking ill of us, or should I accept her love the way she presents it, and if that's somehow stereotypical, so be it? 

We talk politics in my house a lot, but what we don't do is allow other peoples' politics to dictate how we live or love each other.

Know how awesome she is?  This morning she sent me off to work with two sandwiches.  Counter-protesting is fun, too.

That's awesome. I'm glad you guys have senses of humor, for sure. Every couple is different and the LAST thing I want is to tell anyone what to do or how to live their life. I don't find the sandwich jokes offensive-I just find them immature. Just because I don't like them doesn't mean I expect everyone else not to like them. To me, it's like Adam Sandler movies. I can't stand the guy, he never makes me laugh-but again, just because I don't like him doesn't mean no one does. 

I don't find them offensive, but I have a sick sense of humor and no standards whatsoever when it comes to jokes. So I'm not really a landmark of what should be considered in good taste. 

Edited March 8, 2017 by MormonGator

[NeuroTypical]

26 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

1 hour ago, Eowyn said:

I mean society in general, not just couple by couple.

Frankly I can't see any kind of general authority making sandwich jokes, either.

This is a major problem with SJWs.  
...
This is how the alt-Right was born.

[snark] I sure know whenever I think of Eowyn, I always think alt-Right social justice warrior.  Nobody else just has the ability to properly lead such mutually exclusive opposites.[/snark]

[anatess2]

Just now, NeuroTypical said:

[snark] I sure know whenever I think of Eowyn, I always think alt-Right social justice warrior.  Nobody else just has the ability to properly lead such mutually exclusive opposites.[/snark]

<snark> did you try to understand what I said? </snark>

* BBCodes suck. 

[unixknight]

43 minutes ago, MormonGator said:

That's awesome. I'm glad you guys have senses of humor, for sure. Every couple is different and the LAST thing I want is to tell anyone what to do or how to live their life. I don't find the sandwich jokes offensive-I just find them immature. Just because I don't like them doesn't mean I expect everyone else not to like them. To me, it's like Adam Sandler movies. I can't stand the guy, he never makes me laugh-but again, just because I don't like him doesn't mean no one does. 

I don't find them offensive, but I have a sick sense of humor and no standards whatsoever when it comes to jokes. So I'm not really a landmark of what should be considered in good taste. 

Hehe right there with you, brother.  I don't think jokes about flatulence are particularly mature either but I'd be lying if I said I don't occasionally laugh at them.  I'm not sure maturity must necessarily be a prerequisite for funny.  I dislike Family Guy but the episode with the syrup of ipecac contest gets me every time.

In the case of the sandwich jokes, to me there's a subversive element in there that makes them funnier.  It's like, I know if some SJW heard me laugh they'd be up in arms, and that tickles me.  Maybe it would be less funny if the thought police weren't out there, but they are, and it is, and this is a way to fight back.

Not saying @Eowyn is part of the SJW thought police at all.  That said, I don't take my cues from the GAs on what to joke about, because it isn't like these guys are out there doing stand-up comedy tours.    How would we know what they find funny?