I heard a good joke last week and thought it worth sharing. Now it may be offensive to some people and women, in particular, but since I am a woman, I can share it as the law has now decided what a woman is, and I meet the criteria, biologically and legally, so I can say woman and speak as a woman without fear of cancellation, censorship, being hounded by a screaming mob or accusations of being anti-woman.

Isn’t it amazing that after centuries of technological advancement that brought humanity to the peak of their known intellectual powers that, in the 21^st century, we needed a court to define what a woman is. For centuries, men married women, women became mothers, had daughters who grew up to be women too. John Lennon even wrote a song called Woman, so did Helen Reddy, and all along no one even knew what a woman was, how did we ever manage to get here without that knowledge!

And I just realised that although we know what a woman is, do we know what a man is, are men now walking around not even knowing if they are men or not, should we tell them or do you think we need another court ruling? I mean I wouldn’t like to be presumptuous and say something like ‘a man is an adult male person’, which is what I always believed but who knows? In saying that, I had always believed that a woman was an adult female and it turns out I was right, again! They could have just asked me and saved all that time and money going to court.

And what about dogs and cats, especially cats? I think they might need a court case too since there are furries out there claiming to be cats, and cats can’t speak for themselves. How do they feel about others trying to claim to be one of them, how are we to know? They might be highly offended but hide it well since they always appear quite cool about everything. Although if we keep going like this, we could be going to court forever having to re-define every noun in the dictionary!!

But no sooner had the court made the decision than a veritable spew fest of vitriol erupted against the court, the law in general, and JK Rowling, in particular. Forgotten very quickly were the calls for inclusion and diversity or to ‘be kind’ which was often asked for in regard to the entire gender debate.  There was little evidence of kindness from the trans community to those with whom they disagree and all the hate speech laws were rendered useless as the backlash continued with calls to ‘bring back witch burnings – JK Rowling’ and threats to actually kill her were ignored by a weak and incompetent government, too corrupt, cowardly and dishonest to rein in the insanity they have helped to fuel time and again by refusing to define what a woman is.

But, back to the joke, so I’ll have to issue a warning here to the more ‘sensitive’ out there, if you are easily offended, like to parade your self-righteousness, are a DEI hire, Emma Watson or a member of the Wookie club, better to stop now and not be offended. I don’t know why these Star Wars types take everything so personally, I used to be such a fan too. I blame Mark Hamill, he’s been too long in Hollywood which has skewed his perspective on reality and might be much better off in a galaxy far, far away. He could take all the Wookie types with him too and they could look for a planet where either no one is offended, or everyone is perpetually offended, and live out their dreams!!

So, if you choose to read on, you are making a conscious choice and know that you could be offended, so don’t come complaining about it afterwards if you are, you made the choice and were forewarned!

Ok, here it is, it isn’t actually a joke, it was a joke tweet by a New York journalist, if memory serves and, of course, he is getting hammered for it. Reported by a female friend who was offended.

This tweet also contains sexual references, ok here goes -

All women are bi, you just have to work out if it’s bi-sexual or bi-polar!

Well, I laughed and I hope you did too! Some things are just too funny to be offended by!