For people who can't take a joke

People who can't take a joke - that IS offensive | Mail Online

There's a fine line between joking and racism/sexism/whatever else, but you need to know when to laugh at yourself. Also, if you're not offended yourself, then why does it matter? If it does offend someone, let them speak up. If you feel uncomfortable after a joke is told, just say so and it'll stop. No one wants to be mean and rude, so why harshly punish for it? It just incites bitterness and a sense of wanting to do it again in protest.


/endrant

 

Also, if you can't take a joke, the internet is a bad place to be.

 

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S SO OFFENSIVE IT'S REALLY NOT FUNNY /CRI

 

Oh god I agree

 

I both agree and disagree.

Why does it matter if you're not offended yourself? Simple, equality doesn't happen if one group is fighting for it, and everyone else just stays out of it cause it's not their problem. To cut it down to simplest terms when someone is being bullied, they say the bystanders who do nothing are just as bad as the bullies. Just because we learn to control our emotions as adults, doesn't mean that we don't still feel like scared children when we're really hurt over something. I see nothing wrong in standing up for the invisible feelings in the room.

That being said, like everything else, it can be taken too far. -.- The joke that was posted in that article seems rather harmless to me. It wasn't pushing any Irish stereotypes that I've ever heard. It's fact that there are pubs in Dublin. XD It's also a fact that sometimes people meet in pubs. It just so happened that these people were meeting in Ireland. lol If you feel like there's something being implied about excessive drinking, you're reading so far between the lines, you're on the next page. XD

Also this is completely true:

Unless someone is obviously trying to make an offensive statement with a joke, there's no need for laws, or the police to be involved. -.- A complaint to the editor of the paper or news source would have sufficed, no one needs to call the cops.

And in personal conversations, obviously just talking through it is the best way to deal with it when you feel uncomfortable.

 

Sometimes it's good to be in a dysfunctional family

 

That's not what I meant by that at all, i'm sorry if it came out wrong.

What the article says is that most of the time, no one is actually offended, rather someone thinks that a third party *may possibly* be offended. If someone truly is being insulted, then by all means go ahead and stop it, but if no one is protesting, then why protest because of the sheer possibility of there being protest?

 

Even if nobody is offended yet, if it's obviously going to offend someone, I would still say something. I spent a lot of my childhood being very shy though, and I never stood up for myself when people were mocking me. So now that I have the guts to, I want to be there for those too shy to do so for themselves.

But in regards to jokes like the one in the article, then I agree with you. There's no need to over react when something is hinted at or could be interpreted as such. The world is too concerned with bubble wrapping children and trying to completely eliminate pain these days.

 

This goes along the lines of the not being so sensitive. Clearly you can tell the joke in the article was not offensive, but some guy was so sensitive it offended him for some reason. It literally had nothing to do with Irishmen except that it was in Dublin. It was clearly just a joke; if someone is actually being insulted, like I said before, that's different. If someone actually intends to harm you, it's different than a joke not aimed at anyone in particular and definitely not meant with malice.

 

Why do you think I have 10% of the negative ratings I have? Making jokes people found rude/dumb. :/

 

Tact is key to being social

No duhh iso derpeh sometimes

 

I think this is aimed at someone :3

 

One of the things I lost a long time ago was my empathy for people when on the spot. I hold no social commitment to satisfy someone else's emotional needs if they don't know how to handle it themselves. Nor do I expect others to feel committed to satisfy me emotionally. I simply find no real point in getting heated up over a joke or even an insult. Its only words in my opinion.

I know how and where to draw the line in conversation, but that doesn't always mean I will stop at it.

 

All dem long responses doe. I now know why men look at women and go "........seriously you expect me to have read/listened to all that?"

 

Well, technically yes, but I wouldn't expect them to know who they are

 

Preach!