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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca -4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (7 children)

I hate these jokes. It's like the boomer, "god wives are the worst amirite guys?!" jokes. It's really not that hard to enjoy shopping with your lady.

Edit: I just look for clothes for her with her. Sorry guys.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Npt everything is an attack on women.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No dorkus this is a joke about how clothing stores are 99% women's clothes and have maybe a tiny corner for men.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Now that you pointed it out, I see the single shirt hanging in the last two panels. My first read of the comic was also "lol women love shopping" trash humor.

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

lol women love shopping

But they do?

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Few statements predicated on "All women" are true. The same goes for many other subcategories of people.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not a single person used the word "all" in this thread

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Are you not a native speaker?

lol women love shopping

But they do?

What do you think that meant? Did you somehow not read it as a generalization?

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I am. Are you ?

When people say GroupName, they are not saying "every single member to a person". Generalizations refer to a majority, not the totality.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Clearly a world class nit picker and champion of missing the point.

Go on. What's your point here? That saying "women like shopping" isn't an old sexist trope because some women do? Would you then say that {outgroup} are lazy because some are?

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Depending on which study you're reading, women control between 70-85% of consumer spending in any household. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that a majority of women (as in >50%) or even the supermajority actually enjoy shopping.

Also worth considering: very nearly all stores in most malls are geared towards women as clients, and malls themselves report stats indicating the majority of shoppers are women. My local mall reports 79% female clientele for example.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I was nit picking your own pointless (and wrong) nit pick. Don't dish if you can't take

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 11 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I'd say it wasn't about "women shopping bad" but the amount of men clothing's in stores is borderline boring in comparison.

Women get 58382992 items in 2838473 colorful combinations, we got 3 pair of pants in black or lighter black. Slightly exaggerated maybe.

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Men’s clothing section, in most retail stores, looks more like a walking marketing billboard with the companies logos plastered all over the front and back.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

lol. yes. The worst. Never understood that stupidity to run around like that. Only poor people pay good prices for shitty things with logos, still made with slave-labour. But they try to NOT look poor and achieve the opposite :-) The real good stuff has no labels. You know where you bought it, you know who made it.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Men get navy as well! (Slightly blue black.)

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

I don't know in what fantasyland you live, but there's no such thing as blue...tsk...poser!

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Well, it should be, but the dude just sits down at the fire. I don't see him looking at that shirt, looking around at the women's options and throwing his hands up asking where the rest of the men's section is, and if they have these pants in under size 40 like I would be.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well it kind of is when they get the whole store and we get 3 shelves because apparently men don't wear clothing ever.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

You gotta go to "*Victor's Secret. That's where you're messing up.

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's really not that hard to enjoy shopping with your lady.

It is if shopping is not your cup of tea. It's exhaustingly boring.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Seriously, I hate shopping for myself, and that's a fully engaging activity. Shopping with someone else where I'm just waiting to be prompted for my input, if at all? Fucking pass.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I ID with it. Women's thrifting is 90% of the store. Men's thrifting is the 4 things that will fit me that someone's uncle died in.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Gotta branch out. I'm fairly certain a few thrift store shirts I have were left in the mens section by accident because the buttons are on the wrong side.

Fuck if I care, I like floral patterns - fight me bro.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

In fairness I tend to use stuff until the thrift store would reject it anyway....

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's dreadful. A few years ago the "The wife did [insert silly thing tech-averse or shopping-obsessed person does] so I did [insert I-am-very-smart-action]" jokes were dying out, or so I thought. But hey, they are back en masse, and worse, re-done by a younger generation who fancies themselves emancipated and modern. Yuck. If you find living and/or spending time with your chosen person of the opposite sex so horrible please just don't?

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If you find living and/or spending time with your chosen person of the opposite sex so horrible please just don't?

I'm sure there're some lezzies / gays which are not fond of shopping with their partner as well.