Why is FGM Off-Limits To Joke About.......

It's just pure hypocrisy. Nothing but hypocrisy.

It's vestiges of men being seen as stronger than women. It's not honourable to hit those weaker than you so it's dishonourable for men to hit women. But now if we are all equal then it shouldn't be ok for anyone to hit anyone.

I'm not going to hit a woman and think men who do so are quite cowardly because men are weaker than men most of the time. So it's cowardly to hit those weaker than you. In exactly the same way I wouldn't hit a younger smaller boy.

However if a woman tried to mug me I'd smack 'em up.

Yeah that case of the man having his penis cut off and being laughed at was absolutely sickening... as a girl I feel so ashamed that women like that exist.

Yeah, sadly modern society thinks it's generally ok to joke about serious incidents against men or ignore discrimination against men. As much as misandrists are to blame, pathetic whiteknights who bend over for these bastards to keep ****ing men over are also to blame.

We men need to somehow work together to stamp out "whiteknightism" from the world. Those pathetic whiteknights aren't helping men get equality where it's needed.

And no, there shouldn't be any leniency in mocking men as long as women are generally not mocked. Consistency is key.

...it's shows like Lose Women and The Talk which continue to perpetuate these double standards on the face of purely special treatment..

I would agree to an extent, but do we really take those Loose Women all that seriously?

Leslie Winkle!

There is a lot of hypocrisy indeed.

These women are of a different generation though and I think the majority of 21-year old women would find something like this utterly disgusting and wouldn't even joke about it.

Women back in the day could get away more easily with joking about this sort of thing. They had few chances to succeed in life and one of their main forms of 'power' was their sexual allure to men.

These women are just part of a sorry phase where powerful women are able to get away with sexism against males.

I'm pretty sure that phase is coming to an end. It may take a generation or two to completely go, and longer perhaps in removing other female privileges.

I'm not too familiar with Leslie Winkle? Or was she the sane-minded woman on that show?

I'd like to hope that they do too.

People laugh at some things just out of embarrassment or because of the extremity of the thing they are seeing - it's a release mechanism. It doesn't necessarily mean they morally subscribe to the thing they are laughing over.

That isn't the point, the point here is that it's more sociably acceptable to laugh at a guy having his genitals mutilated than girls. I'm not advocating censorship of sick jokes, that wouldn't viably fair, rather that there should be less of a prejudice towards men over women when it comes to certain things like the aforementioned.

When you watch the video, the first big laugh comes from the presenter saying how "it was thrown in the waste disposal" - it was funny, because of the incongruity, classic roots of humour stuff. There really wasn't a big anti-male thing going on in that laugh, any more than there would be if a male comedian was including this material in a standup routine.

I suspect the problem people are having here is that a group of women are laughing over it, but really, why shouldn't they?? It doesn't mean they are recommending it as a new code of conduct for WAGs.

Because the amount of times men are blamed for outlandish jokes pertaining to women, ie rape or female domestic abuse, they are labelled as sexist and offensive, yet when it happens for a guy it's viewed as hilarious by a group which asserts itself as feminist - it's not really helping itself or the problems of sexism.

It's to do with the context - men have historically been in the role of sexist oppressor of women (and still are in many places and situations) and are generally the perpetrator of violence against women, rather than the other way around. It's very wierd for a woman to act in this way and to some extent intrinsically funny because of that. Women acting violently towards men is widely seen as amusing in all kinds of cultures and is often depicted in comedy shows for example, or the threat of it. There is a big moral difference between men making crude jokes about violent rape, when this remains a large and real threat to women and this ludicrously rare event.

What do you think has a higher report rate, male rape or female rape?

I agree with you ,aside,its subjective as to how far you are willing to allow certain jokes to go, regardless of the current roles of men and women.

It's to do with the context - men have historically been in the role of sexist oppressor of women (and still are in many places and situations) and are generally the perpetrator of violence against women, rather than the other way around. It's very wierd for a woman to act in this way and to some extent intrinsically funny because of that. Women acting violently towards men is widely seen as amusing in all kinds of cultures and is often depicted in comedy shows for example, or the threat of it. There is a big moral difference between men making crude jokes about violent rape, when this remains a large and real threat to women and this ludicrously rare event.