in a group of liberal, diverse coeds, Male Friend makes battered woman joke.
the pit of dyketrophywife's stomach falls a bit and she curtly tells Male Friend that his joke wasn't funny.
ten minutes later, when MF and DTW are alone, the former tells the latter in a very sincere way that he was sorry and that "sometimes people-" and here he corrects himself, "sometimes i don't think."

the patriarchy affects us all, my friend, and sometimes we don't even know it.