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A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer are led into a long room. At the other end stands a beautiful naked woman. "When I ring this bell," she says" you may cross half the space between us. When I ring the bell again, you may again cross half the space between us." Both the mathematician and physicist groan and wander off. "Ah, it's Zeno's paradox, we can never actually reach her." The engineer, waiting for the bell, says "I think I can get close enough."
why is there a naked woman?
For the joke to work.
Could she have worn a skimpy bikini instead?
Nope, had to be cakes out, specifically to piss off the people who get angry when they detect something men stereotypically enjoy.
Actually everyone listed in the joke is a lesbian...
Cakey snatch isn't exactly my preferred choice but when in Rome.
i still don't see what the point is.
Because a sexual relationship requires 2 people to touch, so it is a relatable setup.
yeah but like, you don't need to specify that one individual is naked. If that's a required factoid of the statement, the engineer, mathematician, and physicist should also be naked. But there's no mention of that.
Now i don't have much experience in relationships, particularly inter personal ones, but to my knowledge, you are generally clothed most of the time.
You are overthinking it. This is just a premise to setup the joke that an engineer deals with approximation while the other two give up because they'll never reach 0.
It could be a bowl of ice cream for all that matters, but people like corny jokes, so that's it.
no i understood that part. Unless the naked woman has something to do with that part of the joke itself, then i don't know why it's mentioned.
Were you neutered as a child?
no i just don't fucking understand why the naked woman matters here.
Could be fucking anything, a pile of a billion dollars. Three turtles, or a goat, it's the same joke.
I don't think it's the same joke when it's three turtles or a goat, because the joke is "I think I can get close enough...to engage in unspecified sex acts with this woman."
You think the same chemicals that turned the frickin frogs gay is responsible for this aversion to sexual thoughts? "Could it not be a naked woman? That clutches my pearls."
“I think I can get close enough…to engage in unspecified sex acts with this woman.”
that's what i would assume, but then again it never states anything, so this is like walking into a fucking storage shed and seeing a colonoscopy going on. It's just fucking weird.
You objection is noted Mr. Spock. Man your station, please.
also, if the woman is naked, does that mean the mathematician, engineer, and physicist are also naked? Because that would make a lot more sense.
Exactly, it's the same joke regardless so why get bent out of shape over it?
i mean yeah, i guess so, but that's not what im confused over.
I just want to know why specifically it was written with a nude woman? It never alluded to anything in particular.
Is it really that confusing? If it had said there was a pot of gold the implication is clear that the person who reaches it will be rich. You ask "why a nude woman?" and the answer is simply because, just like being rich, desiring a sexual partner is a common desire.
A pot of gold explaining the rules to you about it ringing a bell would definitely be even more suspicious than a random naked woman.
i think it would make equally as much sense, if not more, if the word naked was just removed.
It's just fucking shoehorned into it.
I thought it implied an erection.
that could be it.
It could be a research grant.
engineers love research grants, well known behaviorism of an engineer.
I have friends who are engineers and whose job is to turn theoretical research into applied projects to find research grants for their team.
schrodingers engineer
Could be fucking anything
Like a naked woman.
i mean yeah, that's one of the options. Could also be an orphan source.
The engineer will never reach her, but his boner will.
im pretty sure most people have arms. An engineer almost certainly does.
Because humanity has no other desires between math and tits apparently.
Can confirm.
(I'm both a mathematician and a pervert)
So, I understand why there is a naked woman in the joke, what I don't understand is her motivation.
Don't you know women are objects and have no motivations. /s obviously
man i didn't even fucking try asking that question, i was just concerned about the roots of the hypothetical presented.
and yelling at people who don't understand, apparently.
I've committed the most heinous of crimes according to the internet, not understanding the joke.
Sorry i'm autistic lmao.
Sexism, obvs
that's a possibility.
Only straight men are mathematicians, physicists and engineers. This is why the joke is framed this way.
See: responses from OP, valiantly defending his choice to "piss people off", instead of noticing the joke is just yet another reminder that men are default.
After all, sexism is over, and STEM isn't hostile to women/non-heteronormative people. It's all in our head.
What a .ml tier comment lmao
Yay we got instance racism in lemmy!
When they can learn to behave themselves and stop giving the dumbest takes in every discussion, they can have my respect back.
I know, he wrote a shit comment. But yea most people took random instances
Hi there friend, I am here to inform you that many woman also like the titty. Gay girls exist my friend, and the gender of the three professionals is never specified.
I'll assume ya ain't trying to be homophobic my buddy but I hope you keep that in mind for future refference.
Edit racism comment was another guy, sorry, very tired
I’m not going to spend much time engaging with your comment because you didn’t read mine well.
I did not mention race.
I included mention of gay folks (see non-heteronormative). The “joke” doesn’t work unless the stem major desires being very close to a naked woman, so I don’t find your mention of gay men to make sense.
You did a racism. You did an imperialism. You did a nationalism. You did a xenophobia. You did a white fragility. You did a weak apology. You did no growth. This makes it abundantly clear you don't understand the intersectional nature of the multiplicity of your offenses
/s
that's the vibe i'm getting, but it's a really fucking weird premise for a hypothetical regardless.
"there are a fisher, a farmer, and a welder in a bar, on the other side is cthulhu" is basically how it's worded