When I started here, the majority of people thought I was female. I don't think there was a huge difference in how people treated me, but there was a small difference. People thought I was a militant feminist (which is interesting, because whether or not you're a feminist is independent of gender. I could still be a militant feminist even now) and they were afraid to make jokes. When people found out I was male, they felt more comfortable with me and were happier to joke with me (or at my expense).
I wonder whether your comments were ignored due to people's fear of being judged on the tenets of political correctness. I hate political correctness as much as anyone else but, because of it, are women are being cast as po-faced, litigious harridans who can't or won't take a joke? If so then political correctness is not only failing each of us, it's failing even itself.
Is it normal men don't laugh at women's jokes?
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When I started here, the majority of people thought I was female. I don't think there was a huge difference in how people treated me, but there was a small difference. People thought I was a militant feminist (which is interesting, because whether or not you're a feminist is independent of gender. I could still be a militant feminist even now) and they were afraid to make jokes. When people found out I was male, they felt more comfortable with me and were happier to joke with me (or at my expense).
I wonder whether your comments were ignored due to people's fear of being judged on the tenets of political correctness. I hate political correctness as much as anyone else but, because of it, are women are being cast as po-faced, litigious harridans who can't or won't take a joke? If so then political correctness is not only failing each of us, it's failing even itself.