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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Are fat jokes okay?
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That's kind of an interesting question: what's ok, and in what context? I tend to shy away from all that stuff in both my professional life and my personal life, but that's probably just because I don't find "generalization" humor that funny. When I do find it funny, it's usually because it's a clever joke doing more than deriding the group, or because it plays on a socially acceptable stereotype, like blondes are dumb or lawyers are dishonest. I've always liked "Why did the blonde have a bruise on her bellybutton? -- Because her boyfriend is blonde, too!" because of the funny imagine of someone trying to fuck a bellybutton, not just because I love hearing about stupid blondes. If you told the same joke about, say, some minority group, it would be much more offensive.
Some guy with a French name wrote a great book about the sociology of jokes, especially ethnic ones. Dtb has probably read it; she seems like she's probably an intellectual when she's not busy rearranging her son's wang.
