{"id":720,"date":"2005-01-13T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T18:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/13\/warning-sexist-humor\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:04","slug":"warning-sexist-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/13\/warning-sexist-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Sexist Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father-in-law-to-be and I share a passion:  <em>dark<\/em> chocolate.  When I was visiting I made sure to keep him supplied with a steady dose.  He sends me humorous email on the topic, and I found this one quite funny. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Hormone Hostage knows that there are days in the month when all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his very life into his own hands.<\/p>\n<p>DANGEROUS: What\u00c2\u2019s for dinner?<br \/>\nSAFER: Can I help you with dinner?<br \/>\nSAFEST: Where would you like to go for dinner?<br \/>\nULTRA SAFE: Here, have some chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>DANGEROUS: Are you wearing that?<br \/>\nSAFER: Gee, you look good in brown.<br \/>\nSAFEST: WOW! Look at you!<br \/>\nULTRA SAFE: Here, have some chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>DANGEROUS: What are you so worked up about?<br \/>\nSAFER: Could we be overreacting?<br \/>\nSAFEST: Here\u00c2\u2019s fifty dollars. Why don\u00c2\u2019t you go shopping.<br \/>\nULTRA SAFE: Here, have some chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>DANGEROUS: Should you be eating that?<br \/>\nSAFER: You know, there are a lot of apples left.<br \/>\nSAFEST: Can I get you a glass of white wine with that?<br \/>\nULTRA SAFE: Here, have some chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>DANGEROUS: What did you do all day?<br \/>\nSAFER: I hope you didn\u00c2\u2019t overdo it today.<br \/>\nSAFEST: I\u00c2\u2019ve always loved you in that robe.<br \/>\nULTRA SAFE: Here, have some chocolate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Upset with my choice of humor?  Here, have some chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father-in-law-to-be and I share a passion: dark chocolate. When I was visiting I made sure to keep him supplied with a steady dose. He sends me humorous email on the topic, and I found this one quite funny. The Hormone Hostage knows that there are days in the month when all a man has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12034,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/12034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}