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Not misogynistic at all

yes but why not the Father in law :shrug: he could equally think no one is good enough for his Princess

It plays into the trope that all mother-in-laws are middle-aged battleaxes who you would obviously want to avoid. Of course it's misogynistic. It could probably be argued that it's very "low level" misogyny but :shrug: the subtle messages are the ones that let the larger ones flourish.

Indeed; if the aim of the joke is what's been said, why not "your in-laws are around the corner".

Mothers are always women though so it is about women

Don't open THAT can of worms Niamh! :laugh:

...it could have been ‘father in law’ just easily, but it wasn’t...because there hasn’t really been father in law ‘humour’ in the same way...as in, inferring father in laws are bit monstrous and stereotyping them in such a negative way...it’s not providing any ‘equal, why ‘in law humour at all’...and it’s definitely not progressing in any way by using a ‘humour’ that has become out dated for a reason...

they should have used "Chugger" instead as that would put the fear of God in most

Nah, sorry, ‘everyone hates/is scared of their mother-in-law’ is not demeaning an entire gender

...I mean, one of the very things that ‘father in law humour’ hasn’t been a thing is what should have told them that this was an awful regression...

...it’s stereotyping a ‘role’ as it were, in a negative way because it’s equating it to an horrendous virus...

Where did you get the impression that targetting the entire gender is a prerequisite of something being misogyny? One of the targetted characteristics of the joke is that it is the female in-law, specifically, thus it's gender-targetted, thus it's misogynistic. Just because it only applies to "mother in laws" and not women in general doesn't make it not misogyny. That's like the claim that Tommy Robinson isn't racist because he has black mates and only says bad things about Muslims. Or saying that someone "isn't homophobic" because they only dislike effeminate gay men and are fine with the blokey ones.

Most women become mother in laws ...:idc:

to say everyone hates them is just ridiculous

But not all women are mothers. :smug:

And not all mothers are monstrous in-laws.

....some day you might be a Marsh in-law...

Yeah exactly, it's another subtle message telling us women over a certain age are worthless, Karen, Mother in Law, cat lady etc etc

Just the ones with children

I can see how some mother-in-law humour can be seen as sexist.

But this is literally "avoid people like you might avoid your mother-in-law". The number of people who actually do that is quite high. :hehe:

And what a lovely day that will be for you. :smug:

...yeah, we can socially distance and put our masks on of we see you in the distance...:laugh:...

That sounds like one of those questions on an aptitude test :laugh:

If all mother-in-laws are women and some women are monstrous, which of these statements are true?

A - All Mother-in-Laws are monstrous
B - Some Mother-in-Laws are monstrous
C - No Monsters are mothers

...so there are many who seem to not like those old immigrants...We could treat coronavirus like those asylum seekers, yeah...

...is this a top answer or a pointless one...?...:laugh:...