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I don't think it's even a comment on gender.
It reminds me of an advert for some online bingo site ages ago, where the husband was busy dismantling a motorbike on the kitchen table, much to the dismay of his wife, who sought solace in online gambling. The lighthearted tone of the advert belied that it was basically just a depressing window in to that couple's failure to connect emotionally with one another and the repression of pent-up, unresolved issues that have no healthy outlet within their relationship.
Which I assume is the real punchline of the above joke, or am I reading too much into it?
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@AlexD
spot on, in fact I reversed the genders from what I read earlier this week.
Is it not highlighting men's failures rather than women's?