TOTALLY joking misogynist type joke

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"Wow, you're named after five of your female ancestors? You must have super feminist powers!"

Does it make sense? Is there any humor value to it at all?

I don't get it and I don't find it funny.

To be frank, I don't get how that's even a joke. And while vaguely derisive of feminism, I don't see the misogyny, either. It looks like someone tried to be witty, and failed miserably.

Is it like a matriarchal version of the typical male inheritance of a first name aiming to create a dynasty of strongly named super males...? Otherwise I don't get it, and it had more of an confusing effect than a funny one.

Annd, that answers that. I try piecing together things that sound funny at first, I run it by someone. Not so funny anymore.

*crickets chirping*

I honestly don't get it. However I know it is a "Condescending Wonka" meme/joke.

I don't get it either. It's pretty common to name people after their ancestors, whether feminism is an issue or not.

I think I get it now - the joker assumes that any daughter who chooses her mother family's name instead of the father family name is a feminist.

Maybe OP's grandmothers always chose the mother name hence why he's joking she has super feminist powers? I am just speculating.

Anyway, joke rate: 1/10

I suppose that would make more sense if it was a matrilineal surname. The number five made it seem like they were specific ancestors though--like a given name that was passed down from mother to daughter. Apparently a lot of women in my grandmother's ancestry did something like that but I doubt that there was any kind of proto-feminist ideology at work.

i can use it in a funny scenario i can imagine.

scenario:
boss is having a meeting with sycophantic subordinate employees.
he leans back on his chair behind his huge desk and starts off with a "let's touch base" kind of joke.

boss: what did the march fly say to the gnat?

employees : ?

boss: Wow, you're named after five of your female ancestors? You must have super feminist powers! (laughs heartily)

a few employees: oh ha ha ha ha ha ha (they are ass licking terrified obsequious lapdogs) (john laughs the hardest)

one employee: i don't get it.

boss : john, you explain it to him.....

boss leans forward and pushes his glasses up and listens carefully to what john is about to say

-----the rest is just a facial expression fest that i would find hilarious.

Maybe it would make more sense if the surname inheritance standard to be from father to son, and from mother to daughter? A total gender-based surname inheritance segregation.

After all, genetically wise, the son inherits the Y chromosome identically from father and it goes back from all his male ancestors (few changes are made by mutations), so Y is the most significant ancestry trace (while the X transferred from father to daughter can be lost in second generation) - while the daughter inherits basically identical Mitochondrial DNA from mother and it goes back from all her female ancestors line, and so it's her most significant ancestry trace.

Let's start a movement - "from father to son, from mother to daughter".

Well, it's not worse than those at least:





At the last status: No kidding!!