[dodyg]

There is huge difference between sexual jokes being made among friends and the ones being made by strangers in a professional environment.

The latter makes the environment hostile to women. This is not specific to women. You can apply this to minorities (of any shape or form) as well.

[CRConrad]

"The latter makes the environment hostile to women. This is not specific to women." Uuh... You don't see the self-contradiction there?

Women are just as much sexual beings as men, so why should any talk about sex necessarily "make the environment hostile" to women but not men?!? That could only happen if there were some cultural norm that everyone should pretend that women are actually _not_ just as sexual as men, and then the problem would be _this hypocritical norm_, not the jokes. (Which, as several posters have already pointed out, seems to be exactly the case with US society.)

Actually, come to think of it, a policy to shield women from sexual jokes, in stead of one to encourage them to _make_ sexual jokes themselves, will of course only work to perpetuate this status quo, to reinforce the oppressive norm that "women are poor weak little asexual creatures, whose innocent little rosebud ears must be protected by chivalrous society form ever, ever hearing any innuendo"... THAT is the real sexual oppression here: This stupid policy is in fact _extending_ the (US medieval-style) status quo.

The real feminists here were the dongle-jokers.