To be very honest with you, I've been a little surprised by the fact that the talking heads on MSNBC who are younger than I have never heard that smarmy old aspirin "joke" before. When I was in my 20s, such smarmy jokes were the norm. That sort of insulting, patronizing, off color, sleazy remark stems directly from an insulting, patronizing, off color, sleazy attitude towards women.
That attitude was the prevailing attitude up until Roe v Wade and the women's rights project. Women my age worked very hard to erase that blighted attitude from society. We were so successful that women one generation younger never even knew it existed.
As an old battle ax, I'd like to offer a second outdated cultural meme involving aspirin: