Re: When insults had class

On Mar 8, 10:29 pm, Frank Adam <f...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You're being too touchy then. Jokes are just that, jokes.

No, Frank. Anti-gay slurs are just that, anti-gay slurs. That was
not a joke, it was an ignorant use of an offensive word.

Almost every joke contains a reference to someone being coloured,
white, stupid, female, blonde, cop, Jewish, Irish, disabled, short,
fat, etc.. the list is endless.

This is not a comedy club, a movie, or a TV show. If a person is not
part of the joke, but rather the *** of the joke, is it still funny?
When was the last time you heard any kind of slur in jokes, get thrown
around like anti-gay slurs? Eveyone uses them beacuse they can get
away with it.

And all those jokes are derogatory to
the one who is on the short end of it.

If they are not part of the joke. Don Rickles was a brilliant "put
down" comic, because he was brilliant at including his targets and
himself in the jokes. Andrew Dice Clay was a jackass, because he
ridiculed those people he didn't like and pointed them out to the rest
of the crowd for ridicule, much like Michael Richards did to his black
hekclers.

IMO, Zarky's reply was sharp and right on the money in the context of
the OP's post and with that few sarcastic words he fully agreed with
the OP and maybe even with you too.

I disagree. Zarky could have used any kind of foul language and still
made his point. He chose to use an anti-gay slur because he knew he'd
get a pass. From his straight readers perhaps, but not fro me.

Take it as a mere joke and it doesn't hurt at all, dwell on it and
you'll become a bitter old man.

And take it as a joke and you'll become a jaded and desensitized old
man, Frank I'm really tired of straight people teling us it's just a
word, or a joke,. No, it's not. Too many people have been letting
anti-gay slurs slide and I'm sick and damned tired of it.

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Regards, Frank

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