Mmmm - Honey, missy and other such names kinda blows your argument out of the water and shows you up as a fool. Can I recommend a good dictionary where you can read what irony is, son.
Now run off home little boy before your ma goes mad. Oh and let me know when your balls drop as I am sure there are any number of people who would kick them back up for you.
That wasn't from John, that was from me.
UI..I like reading your blog but I have to agree that your sense of humour sometimes dives down to what redmum alluded to: the eejit bartender. I can laugh at ironing jokes but to be honest I expect them more from my fathers gerneration than my own....shouldn't you be slagging women off about Internet porn or somthing a little more 21st century?
Redmum
"Mmmm - Honey, missy and other such names kinda blows your argument out of the water and shows you up as a fool."
No it shows you are bereft of a sense of humour. Lighten up.
"Can I recommend a good dictionary where you can read what irony is, son."
I'm not surprised you need a dictionary to find out what irony means, what surprises me is that you still don't understand it!
"Oh and let me know when your balls drop as I am sure there are any number of people who would kick them back up for you."
Sounds like there's a certain 'John' who knows what that's like already.
Go back to the sixties you Feminazi.
Caoimhe
"UI..I like reading your blog but I have to agree that your sense of humour sometimes dives down to what redmum alluded to: the eejit bartender"
Not all my posts attempt to conform to standards of the utmost seriousness. I see no problem in injecting a bit of eejit humour or silliness into a debate every now and then.
Most of the people who commented on my original post saw the humour in it - including female posters who made jokes about castration.
People really need to lighten up. I made jokes about male/female viewpoints based on the fact that I have nothing against women. I would have thought a child could figure that out. I guess not...
UI
Is this your way of getting the ladies worked up!
Aileen,
I don't like it when mean girls pick on me. 
UI
It's just their way of being affectionate 
UI, welll I thought the posts were funny anyway. Anyone who actually thought you were serious must have a screw loose.
I found nothing at all offensive, after all nothing a man says can be taken seriously.
Aileen,
Yes they must be playing hard to get. I tend to have that effect on women. Most women tend to really play hard to get.
maca,
I can't figure it out. I don't even see a gender imbalance but apparently that makes me a bad guy in this crazy world!
Fence,
Very cheeky.
Apparently, UI, there's a word for what you're up to.
http://www.problogger.net/archiv...ng-with-attack/
"While it may well bring you links (both from those you attack and others in your niche) it can also bring down your own reputation unless you either:
• are a brilliant writer who knows what you’re talking about
• already have a profile and the respect of others in your niche
• have the ability to not only attack the weaknesses of others but the ability to provide positive and constructive alternatives"
My reputation's in big trouble then.
'a lesbian household'
I'm glad she didn't write ' a happy lesbian household' because that would definitely have been a contradiction, like 'cold fire'.
UI
If they pull your pigtails an roll you in the snow, they really like you!
I bet you like it a wee bit when mean girls pick on you!
"I bet you like it a wee bit when mean girls pick on you!"
A tender little person like me? Course not. 
UI, you write a great blog; but the post in question was a bit lazy to be honest, you didn't really join in the debate as much take the pi** out of the women and try to trivialise the idea that there might be anything to discuss. It's the unconscious motivation that would worry me.
Unfortunately many men, subjects of the upbringing they received (the mammy culture you spoke of) where it's ok to patronise the "girls", mostly because men often don't grow up in an environment where they experience women (and their debates) being taken seriously.
The penis envy thing was OTT. And I think that you also managed to conflate two of Sigi's (Freud) psychoanalytic ideas (which are really past their sell by date) one being castration complex and the other the PE. You've used this as a "look you are envious of me" and forgotten the other parallel of Sigi's theory. Past sell by date or not, he managed a balanced theory.
Yes I saw the humour in the post. However that was cancelled out by a schoolboy pruience, the tone of which seemed to be dismissive.
"Link attack", that's a new one. Of was it just plain old John Fisk (ing).
'Oh and let me know when your balls drop as I am sure there are any number of people who would kick them back up for you.'
John,
That's real hard man talk. I bet you're pussy-whipped. What's your favourite drink, Vichy water? You sound like a collaborator to me, and collaborators usually end up shunned by all sides. Don't go looking for a BJ from UI when the femmies tire of your macho posturing.
ainelivia,
I think you give my post too much credit in the way you analyse it. It was only meant to be a bit of a laugh.
I tend to think that people who take these things so seriously are the ones who really have issues that need to be addressed. It's like people who vociferously express anti-homosexual sentiments. They tend to have homosexual tendencies themselves...
'John, That's real hard man talk.'
In light of Redmum's claim on 'John's' post maybe that should read 'hard mam talk'.
John, if you see this message, try to contact The Samaritans, a responsible adult, or any of the emergency services. They'll do what's necessary to help you escape. Good luck, and let us know how you get on, won't you.
Sorry to disappoint UI, you can attack all you like and excuse yourself by saying "it's only my sense of humour/joke", so talking of issues, see what Freud had to say about joking and the unconscious impulse behind it. If you cannot take yourself seriously, that's your issue, if you can't respect others when they do, thats a real problem. This isn't about humour, this is about humour being the only way you could be part of the discussion because you probably have never tried to understand it or identify with it. And there is also the possibility that you just wanted in on the action.
It is not necessary to attack, demean, be derisive, laugh at, make fun of, other people's concern, and if that's your idea of debating then you are the one who is "catfighting" dear. Oh, and personally I prefer Jung's idea about the masculine and feminine in both genders, and dare I say it, you seemed to be displaying the worst stereotypical aspects of my gender, (according to some males) in the way you dealth with this. Join in by all means. If you really have something to add to the debate, which I gather from you fluffy little piece which made fun of women being or attempting to be serious, you did not. Go and do some of that ironing. Make yourself useful. Give your Mammy a break.
ainelivia,
I think you have some issues of your own that need to be addressed. No offence. However if you can't take a bit of humour then you have real problems in my opinion.
Check out what these bloggers had to say (they got the humour by the way):
Pretty Cunning
In Fact, Ah
As I mentioned, if you can't take a decent bit of banter then this site obviously won't appeal to you.
I won't ever apologise for taking the piss or winding people up as I see no harm in it. I feel sorry for those who do to be honest.
To react so hostile to an obviously light-hearted post is a cause for concern I would think...
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