Bingowings said:
Hasn't it been done to death by now?
BTW I wasn't saying the humour was of the same quality as Charlie Chaplin but just as Charles was not being a Nazi in The Great Dictator this guy isn't being a misogynist in this review.
Doesn't work. This situation isn't like Great Dictator at all. It's a case of a particular taste in humor being misogynistic. It's misogynistic to put that stuff forward for a laugh no matter how many levels of irony or role-playing are invoked as an excuse. The is not an issue of simply taking things ar face value or not. The issue is that certain things are misogynistic if they are a component of a piece of humor, whether or not the joke is intended to be taken at face value. And humor is often cover for putting forward offensive stuff that is meant to be taken as not prejudiced but which actually has prejudice behind it. To me this looks like a case of that.