3mo ago

A woman without a man

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10965552

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Ya'll realize this is just saying a woman doesn't need a man? Like, a man also doesn't need a woman, or a fish a bicycle. Doesn't mean men as a whole aren't important or don't do important things that society needs. It's just that a woman isn't lacking if she's without one (visa versa for the fellas).
- Healthy relationships are generally good for everyone involved though, meanwhile fish can't use bicycles. Not a great analogy, just a funny put-down to stop the pestering.
  
  I'm disappointed in your lack of faith in fish.
Women talk shit until they need something off the top shelf.
- or to open a jar of pickles
  
  or a transmutation spell reversed
  
  All you need to do is hit the edge of the lid with a blunt object and it opens fine.
  Do you know who taught me that? A woman.
- Jokes on you, I'm 6ft. I am the guardian of the top shelf. 🧌
- Are you joking, or are you seriously this sexist?
- Or a house built. Electricity. Sewage. Roads. All those guys are invisible I guess.
  
  As a woman who used to do cash in hand construction work, I can confidently say more women would do those things if they didn't have to put up with a hostile work environment
Ok but a fish with a bicycle is super cool, so the analogy kinda falls apart there
At the Guinness brewery, they had a human-sized animatronics fish riding a bicycle, I bought a poster with a cartoon of it when I went. It must be a more common saying in Ireland, it was also in a U2 song.
There was a girl in my high school that wore this shirt. I only recently made the connection.
FWIW this is a pretty old expression, apparently first recorded in print in 1975. Somehow, society has managed to survive its existence for all this time.
Wonder if we could get a reprint "The world without the USA is like a fish without a bicycle". Only Trump & Republicans don't seem to understand that.
What's wrong with bicycles?
What kind of woke shit is this? Everything is woke, everything is diverse. /s
“If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike”
I do agree with the message yet I find myself confused over the wording.

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