[rajnish manga]

Some insults are so witty and sly that the objects, in this case male chauvinists, may still not know what hit them:

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.

—Dorothy Parker

However, some of the "targets" may be witty and sly enough to mount suitable rejoinders, as in this poem entitled "A Riposte to Dorothy Parker":

You're wrong—we'll make passes
At girls who wear glasses
As long as they're lasses
With cute, curvy asses.

—Joseph S. Salemi