forehead marks (humor)

Richard D. Saran rdsaran at umich.edu
Fri Jun 14 13:50:25 UTC 1996


Whatever humor might have been in this message Wednesday certainly has 
been ground out of it by now.  Let's get back to fonts, syntax ... 
anything else.

On Thu, 13 Jun 1996 GAIL at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Bijoy Misra wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 1996 aditya at icanect.net wrote:
> > 
> > >      Q. What does that red dot on women's forehead mean?
> > >      A. Well, in ancient times, Indian men used to practice archery
> > >         skills by target practicing by aiming at their wife's red dot.
> > >         In fact, that is one of the reasons why they had many wives.
> > >         You see, once they mastered the art of archery and hit the
> > >         target....
> > >  
> > I don't find any humor in above.  It's disrespectful to women..
> > 
> It certainly is humorous and not at all disrespectful to women. As a 
> *woman* I simply don't see why it can't be taken humorously -- unless 
> irony is something you don't appreciate.
> 
> Gail
> 
> 






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