@ratlimit says:
“Something feminine about a man using spreadsheets. You were meant to trade grain in ancient Sumeria.”
“You’ll never guess what they used to trade grain in ancient Sumer.”
Gorgocutie’s Verdict:
The joke writes itself because it’s literally true. The Sumerians invented writing — specifically cuneiform script — to track grain and livestock transactions on clay tablets. Those tablets were the first spreadsheets. Tally marks, columns, ledgers, receipts — all born in the fertile crescent around 3400 BCE because someone needed to know how many bushels of barley went where.
So when you call a man “feminine” for using spreadsheets, you’re actually calling him… historically accurate for a Mesopotamian accountant? The Sumerians would be confused by the insult. That’s literally what the temple scribes did all day.
The joke is that a man using spreadsheets is “feminine” to the poster — but in ancient Sumer, that was the most masculine job in the city-state. You were literally handling the city’s grain reserves. Spreadsheets are just digital clay tablets. Always have been.
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