Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. We need men emotionally and sexually, but we also need men to help us get dressed.

Rudner’s joke riffs on a familiar “battle of the sexes” premise—men and women approach marriage with different urgency—then undercuts it with a practical, absurdly literal explanation. By pointing to clothing design (front vs. back fastenings), she turns a supposedly profound emotional difference into a mundane problem of access and convenience. The humor depends on exaggeration and misdirection: she begins with a quasi-sociological claim, adds a frank nod to emotional and sexual needs, and lands on the unexpected punchline that women also “need” men as a kind of built-in dresser. The line satirizes gender roles while also poking fun at how culture embeds dependence in everyday objects.