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I Am a Feminist


We know.


Edit: for those of you asking for a source and then rejecting it, i'll spare you the embaressment. Here is the source from a journal:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11199-017-0761-z


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popmol · 26-30, M
ooh no i use them becasue i like them. the crude jokes are funny.
offingg · 31-35, F
So you admit you're sexist and homophobic? @popmol
popmol · 26-30, M
@offingg no i never said i am. a good friend of mine is gay and i love woman why would i be sexist or homophobic? i just say the jokes are funny.
offingg · 31-35, F
@popmol But why would you use sexist & homophobic jokes if you acually didn't have these qualities? Surely there 10,000 other ways to make a joke, or maybe you're just not funny if you just like insulting people for a joke.
popmol · 26-30, M
@offingg aah no you misunderstand,i don't often make sexist or homophobic jokes cause i'm not good at them but they are funny when someone else does that like a comedian like adam carr.
like what knock knock jokes? jokes out of problems pain or social outcasts is funny plain jokes are not great
OpenlyHonestly · 31-35, F
@popmol
http://www.laughfactory.com/jokes/sexist-jokes/2
How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart? When she starts her sentence with, "A man once told me..."

Now go and tell it to your mother. I bet she'll die laughing.
popmol · 26-30, M
@OpenlyHonestly neigh i'm sorry my mother doesn't really have humour. but she understands these kinds of jokes. just doesn't think they are funny ( not a feminist hough just not this kind of humor.)

but i honeslty laughed my ass of and coming from a woman makes it 10 times better!
OpenlyHonestly · 31-35, F
@popmol you don't need to be feminist to see this is a shit for retarded ones not a joke.
popmol · 26-30, M
@OpenlyHonestly wait are you angry i found this funny ?
OpenlyHonestly · 31-35, F
@popmol I genuinely wonder why do you find it funny. Seriously, "jokes" of this kind remind me of babbling pre-pubescent brats who can laugh at anything, especially when they hear words like "pussy" or "fuck".

"Why shouldn’t you let a man’s mind wander?
Because it’s way too little to be out all alone."

Another one from the opposite side. Oh, you really need to be creative to come up with something like that. 🙄

I don't say I don't laugh at touchy jokes at all. But around 80% are just primitive words for assholes who just wants to incite hate or relieve their complexes. I don't see a reason why a normal person with a well balanced mind should make up and use this stuff.
popmol · 26-30, M
@OpenlyHonestly aah i don't like those words as a joke :p

haha :) well its mean but great.

i must say the good ones are the ones you really need to think about. but these are funny.

they are not for hate then i would go to the street and yell at a gay couple " fags get of the street" if you make a gay joke it can be funny.

you need to look at t joke from the person saying it from where it comes. your previous joke is from a point where there's a dumb woman saying something smart because she heard it from someone else. would you laugh if it was the other way around? would you laugh it was saying a "how do you know a dumb person is saying somethign smart? if he starts a sentence with "albert einstein once said".

you see you think about this too much, when a woman said something dumb you'd tell the first joke, if you see a pervert man who only thinks about sex you give them the second joke!

unless you say in the joke hey woman are super inferior and dumb, and you think thats a joke then no its not its a dumb statement but the other things are jokes! if you don't like them, then don't go to the comedy show who tells them if there's someone doing this joke do not laugh then they know you don't like them and their joke failed and they know they should not do it with you its that simple its just a joke.
OpenlyHonestly · 31-35, F
@popmol "unless you say in the joke hey woman are super inferior and dumb" -> the person who tells the first joke implies exactly this. "Men are the only smart people. Women are unable to tell something smart" - clearly offensive, clearly not true in many cases, clearly made up to degrade ALL women. Call it whatever you like, joke or not, the fact is that it's just a tool to spread hate between men and women. And practically, you could call "woman are super inferior and dumb" just the same. The meaning and intention doesn't change: To offense other people.
Primitive fun.

You can't offend a man who only thinks about sex by telling jokes about it because he knows it's true. You can't offend gay man telling him that he fucks another man's ass. Because it's TRUE. But if you spread untrue bullshit that is based on stereotypes and generalize it, you just spread stereotypes further and people will actually believe it and make prejudices.

Yes, because too many people are assholes and laugh when somebody else is degraded. Whether deservedly or not. Therefore any comedian or "comedian" can find an audience. Even those with utterly disgusting "jokes" about rape, murder, child abuse etc. 😐
offingg · 31-35, F
@popmol It's simple, if you think a joke that degrades women is funny then you're sexist. Don't degrade women, can't believe that is too much to ask. Words and jokes do have an impact, normalizing the culture of degrading women leads to opression.
popmol · 26-30, M
@offingg thats not true. i might find it funny but i never said something demeaning to woman and i find them inferior.

do you really think everyone is just casually making sexist joke? i don't know if you ever talked to a man in real life.

like in the middle east? an oppression like in the middle east? and you saying all men are bad and saying we should all change is not oppression
offingg · 31-35, F
@popmol You do realize that sexist jokes are actually demeaning right? You also do realize that if someone finds something offensive it's not up to you to dictate whether they should feel offended or not, right?
popmol · 26-30, M
@offingg these guys have wives? these people have woman laugh about it. its the ntire world against a couple of you. this is not oppression this are a couple of people offended because they don't like a joke. no one forces you to listen to the joke.

Haaha i never said you can't be offended but they shouldn't be silenced if you are offended, you didn't find it funny so what? should they say sorry, should they stop being a comedian should you stop what they find funny because you didn't like it?

they have as much the right to offend you as you to be offended.
offingg · 31-35, F
@popmol

A guy in th 1950s also had a wife. That guy was still sexist.
popmol · 26-30, M
@OpenlyHonestly how do you know? he may say in the contexts where they are what they are not this is a joke. if you grasp the concept or imagine a world where they are. he never implies that all woman are stupid.
that is even more stupid! its to spread hate? the only people who hate is people like you who can't take a joke.

wait so you can silence anything if it offends people?

YOU CANNOT CONTROL THOUGHTS. if he means ait as a joke its a joke whatever you think doesn't matter. that means you did not understand his intention and since you cannot know what there's nothing you can do.

offending people? a person makes jokes he knows makes the person laughs that means you shouldn't go to a comedy show where they make these kinds of joke. or a guy who does that shall not be your friend.

if i make a "sexist" joke but mean it on a fun way in a world where its true not here to offend no one. and you'll be offended then both you and me are not wrong. i did nothign wrong. even if you are offended. then you leave.

i guess stereotypes aren't so great but you see theres a problem there. stereotypes are based on some truth. in America you can say blacks are more violent because they cause more trouble in their own community. Muslims here are also useless because they are constantly on the street and hardly study. not all but a lot. so if someone is saying Muslims are lazy its based on a fact and is then exaggerated.

do you not know what a joke is? a good joke has shock value or a pain in it. its to talk about something bad and then make people laugh. a silly knock knock joke can be funny but cannot ever reach the fun and laughter of a crude joke.

a joke is meant to make people laugh, there will never be a joke that makes everyone laugh and there would be a problem if it did. but if a sexist joke is made in a room full of people like you who don't like those then you should say he should get out and we understand, he didn't know the audience he didn't make you laugh simple. but if someone makes a joke i laugh and its meant for me and its sexist how offended you might be you have no right to stop him or attack him for it since it made me laugh it did what it had to do.

you can joke about everything, you just need to see waht the audience can handle. that is the skill comedians have they feel the room and make the perfect joke. that is what a comedian is.

the problem is you don't see your own fault if everyone in the world can laugh about the joke and you and offing can't that means you are the outcast that means you are not normal. its not us its you. it means you are overly sensitive.
popmol · 26-30, M
@offingg that is dumb. i'm not talking about then i'm talking about now
OpenlyHonestly · 31-35, F
@popmol you're an aspiring lawyer aren't you? You could defend any immoral shit. That's not about being overly sensitive. It's about not being a dick to other people just because you can. Something that this society desperately lacks. If you want to stick to your sexist jokes, whatever. I have an opinion on it. You have an opinion on it. Now when we know who we are, both of us can send to hell each other.
popmol · 26-30, M
@OpenlyHonestly no aspiring to be a engineer, how could you defend censorship? i mean you could be the president of china.
we are not a dick to you. if i say a joke then you go away unless i'm in a room with people like you then i'll leave. then i'll go to people who like the joke. and i'm not being a dick i do not offend people with my jokes because they aren't meant to offend if they do then they don't understand it.

yes but my goal is to destroy people like you because you want to silence people. i'm not even saying i like those jokes i'm only protecting the speech of other people. you try to silence them becasue you're offended. this is a serious problem. there are people like you who deny scientific research and other important things even the truth becasue it offend them even attack people. so people like you can do anything when you are offended so maybe you're the serious problem.

you might not be so bad as those people but you're closing in to it. you might think i'm a problem and i might be but i'm just here i'll protect your whining and i'll protect your jokes like in a fight you should go away from each other. but they are jsut standing there and you are attackign so at this point you're a problem if those people will follow you on the street to say sexist joke i'll help you
OpenlyHonestly · 31-35, F
@popmol Where exactly did I say I want to defend censorship? To silence people? Wtf? How? Do you think that even if I had such ambition that I think that it is possible? I just said that I have an opinion on people who make nasty sexist jokes and I condemn them personally.
popmol · 26-30, M
@OpenlyHonestly what i understand from what all you said is you're saying people shouldn't be able to make jokes you don't like.

if that is not then i'm sorry. its fine if you don't like it. but the other woman seems to be trying to stop people from making jokes and i cannot let her do that.
OpenlyHonestly · 31-35, F
@popmol Then you don't understand it. You can't force anything like this on people. Just like you can't teach people tactfulness, because different people have different tolerance levels. There are people who can predict what they shouldn't tell other person if they don't want to touch them and there are people who have no idea. I know about three people like this and had enough time to realize that it's not their fault that their EQ is lower.

But personally, I find it sad when a person knows that it will most probably offend a person next to them and still tells it and makes excuses that it's just a joke. Especially if these people meet for the first time and don't know each other and the one who is offended can't even leave because she or he will be seen as overacting one. (team building party for example, informal business meeting...).

I have just a humble wish that people would be tactful enough to know when it's appropriate to tell certain things. Especially in teacher-student, employer-employee relationships, where you can't defend yourself.
popmol · 26-30, M
@OpenlyHonestly well yes of course you can't structurally change them to higher peoples EQ

i don't condone that since it just being a troll. like i said i will protect them when they get silenced but also make sure they don't harass.

of course but you can't expect everyone to know it. and certainly not jerk from using it. but i think people in power like teacher shouldn't do it since i had teacher who made horrible jokes when i was small but thats a teacher and completely differnt from the average person who is just there.