Men take over. It is probably because of socks. (MR)
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'Few things interest a young man more than the contents of his nostrils.' (MR)
Think young male, that was the thing. Fart loudly and with self-satisfaction at a job well done, (MR)
Misogynists to a man, the wizards were therefore always punctiliously polite to ladies. (TG)
'I’ve got nothing against men. Quite the contrary. But they can’t cook. Oh, they can cuisine like no one’s business. Put them in some huge kitchen with dozens of chefs and skivvies to shout at and they can manage to fry an egg and arrange it delicately on the plate with sprigs of this and that on a bed of somethin’vaguely sinister, but ask them to serve up meals every day to a huge bunch of hungry kids on a budget of sixpence and they’ll have a bit of a headache. I daresay there are men who can manage it, but usually when I hear someone say that a husband cooks, I generally reckon it means he’s got a recipe for something expensive and he does it twice a year. And then leaves the pans in the sink ‘to soak’. (NOC)
'It’s like that in the Watch, too,’ said Angua. ‘You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There’s no men and
women in the Watch, just a bunch of lads. You’ll soon learn the language. Basically it’s how much beer you supped last night, how strong the curry was you had afterwards, and where you were sick. Just think egotesticle.' (FC) ... upon marriage men get a whole set of extra senses bolted into their brain, and one is there to tell a man that he’s suddenly neck deep in real trouble. (HFS)
Sam Vimes could parallel-process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be
challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases, such as ‘and they can deliver it tomorrow’ or ‘so I’ve invited them for dinner’ or ‘they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply’. (FE) They didn’t have to be funny, they were father jokes. (WFM)
At his club a gentleman could find the kind of food he’d got used to at school, like spotted dick, jam roly-poly and the perennial favourite, stodge and custard. Vitamins are eaten by wives. (TOT)
... Miss Butts sincerely believed that there were no basic differences between boys and gels.
At least, none worth talking about. (SM) Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men. (GO)
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