So live and let live,       
let this be our motto,    
and let the sleeping dogs lie.     
Here's to the dogs of Toledo, Ohio,     
ladies, we bid you goodbye.

Those lines are from a once-popular song by John Denver. As songs go, it is not very complimentary about Toledo or its ladies. Having spent little time in Toledo, I can't comment on the accuracy of John's observations. I can only assume he meant them as satire. 

But while some satire tickles, other satire bites. Consider the denigration of ladies as "dogs." It is chauvinism at its worst. It could even be called bad taste bordering on obscenity. If a young man is asked to evaluate his blind date of the previous evening and, instead of commenting, begins barking, only the most immature would think him funny. And if a college fresh…