Mother In Laws

[Wayne Goodwin]

Why are there so many Jokes about Mother In Laws ?

You never hear one about Father In Laws , Why ?

[crestofwaves]

How do you come up with all these good topics, Wayne? 

Can't answer now.  Too early and I'm getting ready for work, but I want to thank you for priming the pump for us here at Dramady.

[Lifesighs]

Don't have any, in my first marriage my MIL was a horror story, glad to have escaped that. I am one now but I really like and get along with my DIL, also I never interfere or give advice.

[Karin M Fichtner]

Maybe it's because MILs have a tendency to interfere more often than FILs.  I have had good luck with this.  My first husband's mom died when he was young, my second husband's mom was a sweet old lady that liked me and never got in our business, and my last MIL was a b***h, but she lived in Argentina, so I only had to put up with her on rare occasions. 

[crestofwaves]

Because women are among those about whom people can still joke and get away with it. Try telling a joke about a gay person or a Muslim or an illegal immigrant and see what happens.  But a joke about a woman--still allowed. My ole militant roots are showing.

[ProblemAgain]

my militant roots showed but i used that manly grecian formula....it has lead in it..does that mean you get lead in your pencil or just brain damage?

 but seriously...women are one of the few 'groups' who can see the jokes as long as they aren't those myopic masculine jokes about how women aren't smart or skilled etc....(ever wonder why men NEED to make jokes like that? nudge nudge wink wink bob's your uncle  kinda like dipshit racists make jokes about black people and watermelon...remember ray and his antihispanic rants about tacos and sombreros and chihuahuas?))

[Kim]

Because the women are the ones who get into their kids' marriages and tell them how it should be done and frankly, the men just want the conversation to be over in time for KICKOFF....LOL!!