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The "comedic banality" nonsense is tiring. At least you also said what you really mean, that the sexism is problematic, but far too often I have seen people pr
by Crito 13y ago
The "comedic banality" nonsense is tiring.
At least you also said what you really mean, that the sexism is problematic, but far too often I have seen people pretend that their issue with a offensive/bigoted/problematic joke is that it is not funny or cliche^. Let's be honest here, that is not actually what bothers people. We only hear those objections when there is something else wrong with the joke; nobody objects to non-offensive unfunny jokes. Groan perhaps, but not object.
^ Usually this manifests as something like "it's not even that it is offensive, the joke is just _lazy_"
- thwest 13y agoThere's no accounting for taste I suppose. I'll happily wade through a mountain of bad puns, but scatology and sexual dimorphism jokes are just wearisome.
- Crito 13y ago> "scatology and sexual dimorphism jokes are just wearisome." Right, but that is not because they are unimaginative or cliched (evidenced by you being able to wade through mountains of bad puns). It is because they are scatological or sexist.
- illuminate 13y ago"The "comedic banality" nonsense is tiring." I like dick jokes as much as the next person, but they have to be funny. It's not as "shocking" as you think. It's cliche.