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Humor & Life Quote by Tim Allen

"Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me"

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It reads like locker-room wisdom dressed up as chivalry: not a feminist manifesto, but a survival guide from a guy who’s watched too many men detonate their own lives with one “harmless” remark. Tim Allen’s repetition of “Never” is the comedy engine here - a hammering, dad-lecture cadence that turns a simple etiquette tip into a mock-commandment. The specificity (“rear end,” and especially the trap words “large” and “size”) is doing the real work. He’s not just warning against insults; he’s warning against measurement, categorization, the moment a body becomes an object to be evaluated.

The subtext is classic Allen: masculinity as a bumbling system of rules learned through pain. “Trust me” implies a backstory he doesn’t have to tell - a blown date, an argument, a public humiliation. That implied anecdote is the joke’s shadow, letting the audience fill in the disaster with their own memories. It’s also a way of laundering accountability into pragmatism: don’t avoid commenting because it’s demeaning, avoid it because it’s dangerous. In a culture that often trains men to treat women’s bodies as commentary fodder, Allen’s line lands because it acknowledges the impulse and then slaps it down with mock-authoritarian finality.

Contextually, it’s very 90s-to-early-2000s stand-up and sitcom masculinity: guys swapping “rules” to stay out of trouble. The humor isn’t in enlightenment; it’s in fear of consequences - social, romantic, domestic - and the nervous recognition that some topics are rigged no matter how well you think you mean.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Allen, Tim. (2026, January 15). Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/never-comment-on-a-womans-rear-end-never-use-the-159782/

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Allen, Tim. "Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/never-comment-on-a-womans-rear-end-never-use-the-159782/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/never-comment-on-a-womans-rear-end-never-use-the-159782/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Tim Allen (born June 13, 1953) is a Comedian from USA.

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