It saddens me when apparently nice people make such jokes, and how common eg mother-in-law jokes are. Too much humour is based upon normalising abusive relationships especially ones with women.
And this is very much not about that pernicious phrase "oh you just can't take a joke", we certainly can take and make jokes, but tryiing to make abusive relationships funny is not something anyone but the abused should do in my mouthy opinion. I'm someone starts the explanation of my health problems with "Well my fallopian tubes decided to do a conga round my colon ..." which usually raises a startled laugh and has I am told caused damp key boards when drinks have been ejected over them, so I can certainly take a cosmic joke on me!
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Date: 2016-06-13 03:53 pm (UTC)It saddens me when apparently nice people make such jokes, and how common eg mother-in-law jokes are. Too much humour is based upon normalising abusive relationships especially ones with women.
And this is very much not about that pernicious phrase "oh you just can't take a joke", we certainly can take and make jokes, but tryiing to make abusive relationships funny is not something anyone but the abused should do in my mouthy opinion. I'm someone starts the explanation of my health problems with "Well my fallopian tubes decided to do a conga round my colon ..." which usually raises a startled laugh and has I am told caused damp key boards when drinks have been ejected over them, so I can certainly take a cosmic joke on me!