Posted by Travis Newbury on 07/06/07 09:52

On Jul 5, 9:33 am, SpaceGirl <nothespacegirls...@subhuman.net> wrote:
> > Are you really that thin skinned that a joke about dyslexia makes you
> > angry? THIS is what political correctness has become.My "feelings"
> > have been hurt.... You said something mean... Give me a break.
> :) nah, doesn't bother me much, but I'm not the only one reading here
> and these sort of "jokes" are a little distasteful. Growing up with
> dyslexia was NOT nice, so, forgive me for being a little irritated
> when someone thinks it's a funny subject!

But it IS a funny subject. Distasteful? Maybe, but funny none the
less. I feel a mini-rant coming on...

<mini-rant alt="fuck it if you can't take a joke">
The reason it is funny is because it effects so many people. That's
what makes something funny. You must be able to relate to it in order
to find it humorus.

When Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet on her TV show and
anounced she was gay it opened a huge door for the type of humor they
could use on the show. Or so they thought. Ellen could now openly
include gay humor. However, her show's demographics were not made up
of Gay people. Her audience was your average middle class family.
The audience was relating to Ellen's _Social Class_ based humor and
not her _Sexuality_ humor.

When they made the switch from social class based humor to gay humor
the audience could no longer realter to the humor, it was no longer
funny to them, and they looked elsewhere for their tv humor. Ellen
then went off the air.

If you can not personally relate, it is not funny. This is also why a
fart joke is universally funny. EVERYONE can relate to it. There is
not a human alive that does not have a funny fart joke, that makes
everyone laugh when ever they tell it.
</mini-rant>

So in reality the fact that someone jokes about something, no matter
how they make fun of it, is actually showing the subject respect
because everyone that laughs can relate to what they are laughing at.

Whoa, no more for me...

[Back to original message]