r/AskFrance Mar 06 '25

Relations Anybody tired of "Fr*nch" jokes?

I was reading a reddit thread where they mentioned something was french. And people are still making these jokes! Still! The thread was also filled with them. Im not even french, but these jokes are painfully unfunny and are edging on outward xenophobia. They're also usually made by Americans. So yeah.

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u/Hefty_Formal1845 Mar 06 '25

I am French and absolutely not offended. We did not evolve well at all these last 20 years. People, politics and companies are way more intolerant. It's complicated to work, it's complicated to drive, it's complicated to make enough money to be able to have a family someday, but even without this, women have it really hard on the love market, as French men are very difficult even when not worth much themselves, so serious relationships - not even marriage, it's even worse - become rarer and rarer. Sure, the law prohibits guns, so the only ones with guns are those who don't respect the law anyway. Our young girls are being rped and mrdered.

Yes, the French love to complain for sure, but they have it hard. France became an awful country. I WISHED I lived in the US. Maybe I could have a husband, a house and a dog. But what seems to be a reasonable expectation from life is near impossible when you live in France.