A WOMAN who told a joke at the expense of men has been instructed to imagine a bizarre fantasy world where instead women were the butt of cruel jibes.

Francesca Johnson’s attempt at humour, which portrayed men as lazy, sex-obsessed pigs, prompted colleague Roy Hobbs to picture a make-believe world where womankind is regularly belittled by patronising humour, and how that would feel.

She said: “It really made me pause and reflect. A world where women were reduced to naught but stereotypes about their looks and behaviours for a cheap laugh.

“The joke I made may have relied on my personal observations, but was underpinned by an unspoken contempt of an entire gender. That’s where the so-called humour came from. The thought of applying such an approach to women? Sickening.

“Where could the

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