ALAN writes:

“It’s hard to believe that not that long ago men could joke about women without being sued”, you wrote.

I will testify that there was such a time. Consider the teenage girls who carried army cots, magazines, tangerines, coffeepots, watermelons, TV sets, potato chips, and electric fans in their purse.

Did they beat up on Paul Petersen for singing about them in 1962’s “She Can’t Find Her Keys?” They did not. They laughed along with everyone else.

(Lyrics for She Can’t Find Her Keys by Paul Petersen – Songfacts)

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