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>I mean, where does this political correctness stop? When you are exclusively in the company of people who know you well enough to tell precisely how ironic yo

• singular 14y ago
  Yeah I guess that was a cheap response, but with some validity :-) There's a big difference between making race/sex jokes with people who realise you are being ironic + actually have no problem with it (I emphasise actually!), vs. when you are actually demeaning someone and they are __in the room__ at the time. There's definitely a big problem with sexism in our industry (+ elsewhere too clearly.) A thought experiment: somebody gets up on stage and presents a slide saying 'so simple that even blacks can use it!' There's a degree to which in any society where it's ok to make 'jokes' or comments with an edge, when the group in question is to some degree subjugated. That still remains the case with women to a large degree, far less so race (at least openly in the west), and 100% is the case with weight. It's worth stopping and taking a look at that.
• king_jester 14y ago
  There's no such thing as ironic humor based on sexism, racism, ageism, ableism, etc. If you are a member of a privileged group and you make jokes or use terms that have historically been used against people, you aren't being ironic, you are upholding the same sexism/racism/ageism/ableism/etc.