Sadly, all men are created equal. Nothing could improve this moment, except maybe a bigger television. Yes, it is. The trick is that no matter how you answer it, you will immediately find yourself driving down to your nearest home-improvement centre, where you will spend the rest of the afternoon trying to decide the type of curtain rod that's right for you. It has as much to do with the nature of the question itself as with anything else.
Women are expert at posing questions that seem to have no right answer.
Here's a common example. Most of us would rather take our degrees again than field this one, yet it may well come up several times a week. Your only real choice is to say no, clearly and immediately, leaving no possibility for any subtext, and making it sound like a widely acknowledged fact and not simply your opinion. This doesn't work, but all the other options are worse. In all of these cases, elaboration, justification or any attempt to be funny is unlikely to pay off.