Turkey Jokes

This Christmas, I came across one of those annoying internet sent jokes that seem to fly around for no apparent reason and come with no data as to their source. It's one of the ways lazy people think they can "keep in touch" by merely poking a key. This particular "joke" made me want to respond which is unusual. I thought, "What have we become?". The intro for the jest, promised to be a hint for roasting a holiday turkey and the photo showed a cooked turkey with two lemon halves placed under the breast skin. As you can imagine, the result conjured a human image. Apparently, this so-called joke has gone over hugely with individual responses causing even more childishness. I am tired of misogyny disguised as "mere fun and why are you so serious about it".  I am not what you could call a "women's libber" even though I detest what some boors see as funny, this turkey thing made me nauseous.  On the one hand, we are all shocked at famous male movie stars mistreating females and on the other we send these ridiculous "jokes" out into cyberspace where they can, and will, be picked up by anyone, including children. I repeat, "What have we become?". Further to this topic, I relate a family tale. We used to have a male relative, an older man, who, because of his close relationship to the family, had to attend family dinners and other events. He was a churchgoer and elder in the church he belonged to. He was not a drinker or smoker and he was well educated. His fault was the telling of "cute" jokes that had sexual innuendoes. I know that most, if not all, of us have encountered these old fools. And not all of these men are old. After suffering through this chap's after and during dinner out-put over the years, I finally got up the courage to tell him privately, what I thought about his habit. He simply glared at me and made a remark about Freedom of Speech. Knowing that there is no Freedom of Having To Listen, from then on, when he began one of his "cute jokes" as his wife defensively called them, I rose from the table to find fresh air until the "cute joke" had ended. It was noticed and fortunately, that kind of joke stopped. As they say, "it starts with one". Joking on line, is rampant and many of these ribald pieces of trash are accompanied by pictures or cartoons. The internet being without censorship apparently, allows some people to pass these on to dozens of their associates without abandon. Fortunately, we have a delete key and a blocked sender ability on most of our computers. Joking is a bad habit and, for example, lots of guys in man groups, and maybe women also, often feel pressured to make fun about the human anatomy and associated activities. They feel, I suppose, that it makes them more of a man or a foxy woman to jest about women's and men's bodies. They forget that they insult all women including their wives, sisters and mothers and in the event of women, their mates, siblings and parents. Women that I know don't sit around and make jokes about the male form, nor do most of the men (while I am there, I should add).  It is odd that most of all adult jokes are not really funny. They make fun about things that aren't particularly amusing and out of embarrassment, I hope, people feel the need to laugh. But after that disgusting turkey thing, I think it's time we became more discriminating.