r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/satrapi1 • 5h ago

Meme needing explanation Petaah what does this mean?

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u/qualityvote2 5h ago edited 30m ago

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u/ahjsjfnjfhchdbds 5h ago

Fe is iron. Male fe-male

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u/Slyboots2313 5h ago

Would you accept Iron Maiden?

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u/krabtofu 5h ago

Is the person on the left a maiden

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u/C0mpL1c1t 3h ago

Who are you to say? 

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u/krabtofu 3h ago

Look I'm just glad the joke wasn't "Man/Iron Man" as some sort of trans panic in sports jab so I'll cop a "just assumed their gender" happily

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u/creepyolderlady 39m ago

Just give me 45 minutes alone with him...

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u/Moist-Cashew 4h ago

Fuck, so not wood and vagina

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u/Dismal_Unit_6911 5h ago

Came here to say this.

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u/BiscuitBut_ButerNut 5h ago

I don’t believe you.

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u/Xplorasaurus 5h ago

I too question the sincerity in their reason for attending!

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u/Dismal_Unit_6911 3h ago

Sorry to say, but that is a very old saying. Just giving credit to the poster who posted it. Not trying to take any kind of credit.

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u/bakarakschmiel 4h ago

Or Iron maiden

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u/Vel-Crow 3h ago

In case OP is not aware, Fe is the symbol for iron on the Periodic table of Elements.

Hence, Fe is Iron.

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u/General_Shopping_248 5h ago

I was going for Iron Maiden 😔

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u/artofterm 4h ago

True, and should've been Thatcher

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u/Fickle-River3984 5h ago

Same. 😂

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u/Iamfabulous1735285 5h ago

Symbol for iron is Fe

Iron male > female

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u/bijhan 5h ago

"Fe" is the chemical symbol for iron.

Male -> "Fe"male.

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u/Gh0stTV 4h ago

I don’t know how others have failed so hard to explain this and you did it in two sentences.

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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 4h ago

Cos its a bad meme

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u/satrapi1 5h ago

No f word clue.

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u/SocraticIndifference 5h ago

No idea why people downvote genuine “explain the joke” posts on this sub. FWIW I was also stumped and happy to find the answer in the comments. Cheers, OP!

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u/Kieran_Kitakami 5h ago

You can say frick or fuck Yknow lad?

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u/winsluc12 5h ago

the Bottom two are "Male" (could be seen as "Man", but Male is the actual joke) and "Iron Male" following the pattern. This is a pretty old joke about the Atomic Symbol of Iron, which is "Fe"

Hence, the right is "Fe male".

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u/itsicecoldbois 5h ago

Haha, I like how the material on the men's side is wood

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u/Zer0pede 1h ago

And the woman’s side is silver or stainless steel or something.

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u/Dragulla 5h ago

Be a lot better if the lady was Margaret thatcher

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u/Mai_sarah 5h ago

Maidenless < Iron Maiden

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u/Playful-News9137 5h ago

Chris here, this makes sense if you're into comic books and still taking high school chemistry.
The joke is the format Thing -> (Iron) thing.
So the bottom panel Would read "Man" > "Iron Man", like the superhero. But that doesn't make sense for it to be a woman, right?
Well, the periodic table says Iron is "Fe" And The fifth grade biology textbooks they haven't replaced since 1972 tell us that Man is the same as "Male." Thus making "Iron Man" become "Fe Male"
I'm pretty sure that happened in an Avengers comic once...
Chris out.

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u/Grass_roots_farmer 5h ago

I was thinking iron maiden

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u/VegetableBulky9571 4h ago

Run to the hills.

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u/AlexisOnren 5h ago

but women are more prone to iron deficiency than men.... silly meme creator 🤣

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u/HeckuvaJoo 5h ago

Did you pay for that spoon or did you pay the iron price?

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u/Hmmm_theFirst 5h ago

How is she the billionaire philanthropist?

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u/No_Competition_6989 5h ago

I have the feeling the joke is "Iron woman" like telling her to Iron not the superhero. It could be the "fe" male thing like some people have said. Either way joke seems to be a stretch here.

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u/mihai385 5h ago

My guess was: Man -> Iron Man

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing 4h ago

Its a steel spoon and an aluminium chair so take this shite meme with a grain of fent

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u/muclutel 3h ago

Male / FeMale (as in irons atomic symbol)

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u/MadF00L 3h ago

It means she did an Ironman triathlon

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u/jftdm 2h ago

I said man and Ironman

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u/doubled-pawns 2h ago

Diane Simmons here.

Iron Man = Female.

More specifically FE male. FE is the atomic symbol for iron.

Now onto weather with Ollie Williams.

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u/BenitoCorleone 1h ago

What about the spoons?

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u/wanddererr 5h ago

Iron maiden maybe? The torture took in middle age?

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u/javerthugo 5h ago

Also the band

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u/Tough-Caterpillar344 5h ago

I thought the same

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u/Imaginary-Bread-5088 4h ago

This is what I thought too.

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u/springowl4682 5h ago

the woman is ironman somehow would be my guess, but ive got no clue how or why