True story:
A lawyer hosts a holiday party at his home. Standing in the kitchen (where people often gravitate) with two other couples (the lawyer's wife was entertaining guests elsewhere in the home) the lawyer is telling a story of having a conversation with other lawyers, one of whom was an ardent feminist. In the course of that conversation, the lawyer had expressed the wish that a certain government official he had dealt with had "possessed a little more testosterone" (meaning, in this case, personal courage) and the feminist had jumped all over him for implying that only men had courage. The lawyer had apologized to the female colleague by observing that she was certainly correct and that she obviously possessed far more testosterone than any male he knew.
All the listeners laughed but one female, the wife of a friend, and herself an ardent feminist. She lashed out.
"You think everything's a joke, don't you?" she said angrily. "Nothing is serious, everything's amusing."
The lawyer stopped laughing and fixed her with a dead-fish stare. "No, I take humorless, self-important assholes very seriously," he said flatly.
The feminist turned beet red, turned on her heel, and stormed off. Her husband glanced at the lawyer, raised his eyebrows, shrugged, and followed his wife. The remaining male in the kitchen was grinning and shaking his head in a manner that indicated that the lawyer was, once again, simply being himself. The friend's wife, the remaining female in the room, looked at him with a wry smile and said "Well played, funny man."
Sometimes, the funny man is halfway decent. Sometimes he's just a prick.
Locked inside your head
Do you realize the things you said
Never made sense?
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