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[novapsyche]

(link to original post--visual joke)


My reply: Boo to sexist humor.


droid_1's response: Hehehehe!!!

Try to think of it as how the typical male thinks of the typical female. More complicated than himself. Perhaps non-understandable.

Of course, I re-iterate that I personally do not understand *anybody*.


My response:

You mean for me to stereotype, and I've been fighting against that since I can remember finding out what stereotypes were.

I think this explains my style of sense of humor when it comes to racial humor, for example: I like Richard Pryor--he tried to explode race from the inside out. I don't like people who play to type, like this new black comic who said (I'm paraphrasing), "You know more of us is out there stealing things, just like more Hispanics work out west." (This is also why I don't like Carlos Mencia.)

True comedy surprises instead of confirms (or it may confirm, but it confirms the nuanced, not the "rule").

Comments

[laureth.livejournal.com]

The reverse could also be true. I personally find men to be less straightforward than the joke implies. The thing about sexist humor in general (and this joke in particular) is that it cuts both ways. Yes, women are "sooooo complex" - but men are not that simple and are cheapened by being categorized as such. It reminds me of that old adage about "he who throws mud also loses ground."

nice

[magicmaiden.livejournal.com]

Well said, thank you.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

No, the man's is nine inches long. And he gets really angry if some other guy has a ten-incher.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

How do you feel about comedians such as Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman who create a persona of an ignorant bigot as a way to hold ignorant bigotry up to ridicule?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Oh, satire is necessary and long-respected.

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

I find Stephen Colbert to be "funny" - I can laugh, I can see his point.

I find Sarah Silverman's comedy, in a sense, brutish. She leaves me embarrassed for her, even knowing where she's trying to go, and I just don't laugh.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a family where expression was valued more than decorum, which may in part explain my enthusiasm for Sarah Silverman (I also think she's a strikingly beautiful woman who is defiantly not in the typical Aryan starlet mold--which was an important plot element in Who's The Caboose). I love her stand-up act, but find her sit-com beneath her and essentially the same plot line rewritten over and over: 30 year old woman whose emotional development is arrested at the level of an 8 year old.

[guttaperk.livejournal.com]

It's unfunny because it's not even close to being true.

hmm

[magicmaiden.livejournal.com]

Men have all the same dials...just can't see them. They can't...pretend they are not there.

Look at it as they are saying the woman is a more fine tuned instrument, higher calibration. wink.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

Mostly, these kinds of jokes aren't funny, not because they're "not PC" or something, but because they're lame and stale. Similar points to the ones you're making here:

http://kateharding.net/2007/12/20/stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one/