Poll: Is it okay to make straight jokes?
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You know your friends more than we do. So you should know how they will react.
In my opinion jokes are fair game, so long as you take as good as you give. Don't go cracking jokes at someone then throw a fit when they get you back.
As written on my friend's hat: 'If you can't take a joke, fuck off'
In my opinion jokes are fair game, so long as you take as good as you give. Don't go cracking jokes at someone then throw a fit when they get you back.
As written on my friend's hat: 'If you can't take a joke, fuck off'
I went with jokes, but this is coming from the girl that mad her mildly intolerent guy-friend laugh with a get-back-in-the-kitchen type of joke.
I say laugh at everything, so yeah.
But I would totally make 'heterosexual jokes' if I could ever think of them at the appropriate time.
I say laugh at everything, so yeah.
But I would totally make 'heterosexual jokes' if I could ever think of them at the appropriate time.
http://instantrimshot.com/
That link deserves an award of some kind.
And I love making straight jokes, mainly to piss of my friends though...
That link deserves an award of some kind.
And I love making straight jokes, mainly to piss of my friends though...
I think the point is that perhaps he's starting to percieve the world in such a way that your preconception ISN'T the rule.thaluikhain said:
OT: Personally, I'd have taken pause before making the same joke. People's perceptions of others can be very easily clouded. For two people NOT of a hetero nature, being seen as "closet hetero" may cause them grief in their own interactions with your GURPS-playing friends. Recall 'Biloxi Blues' (circa 1988; Matthew Broderick; actually pretty good, if not considered a "classic"), simply saying something can change people's perception of someone else, whether right or wrong.
Over all, it comes down to your take on the given situation. Always remember that words have meaning (and, no, "MovieBob" Chipman was NOT the first to say that), and can have more impact that originally intended, and not just to your intended audience.
I'm with the folks who agree straight jokes are tough to take seriously. The "closet hetero" comment would seem to be more a declaration of how commonplace homosexuality is than anything else. And it would be tongue-in-cheek declaration considering that, even in the city with the highest ratio, it comes out to something like 1/7th of the population [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#United_States_2]. Basically, being straight is being amongst the boring majority, you might well try making a joke about how the sky is blue.
I believe that anybody can make fun of anybody OR nobody can make fun of nobody as long as the jokes doesn't go too Extreme. But then again, those are MY beliefs...
if you can't joke around with someone about anything, then you have no business being friends with such tight asses.
On the one hand, I generally don't have a problem with humour if it isn't mean-spirited. Also, I (gay) would have thought it was pretty funny.
On the other hand, this is effectively like walking into a room with a few black people doing something stereotypically white and making some remark about them being "secretly white". I could definitely see people being offended.
Again, I wouldn't be offended, but the people you're worried about are presumably your friends, not me. Also not the Escapist forumgoers. Even if everyone here agrees that they "shouldn't" be offended, how does that help you if they are offended? If you say "well maybe that bothers you, but it shouldn't" you're not going to keep your friends for very long.
On the other hand, this is effectively like walking into a room with a few black people doing something stereotypically white and making some remark about them being "secretly white". I could definitely see people being offended.
Again, I wouldn't be offended, but the people you're worried about are presumably your friends, not me. Also not the Escapist forumgoers. Even if everyone here agrees that they "shouldn't" be offended, how does that help you if they are offended? If you say "well maybe that bothers you, but it shouldn't" you're not going to keep your friends for very long.
Upon reading the original post I immediately fired up google to help with this. Straight jokes are acceptable, the biggest problem is that because being straight is the statistical norm, fewer straight jokes are around. Sexist jokes are so damn common precisely because the population is relatively even between the two sexes.
To be fair, OP, I think your jokes was actually a gay joke in disguise. It calls out their different nature by shouting "DON'T LOOK THIS WAY," so to speak.
But it was a good line.
Anyway, here are some sample straight jokes.
How is a straight guy like tofu?
Squishy, unattractive and no taste.
What do you get when you cross a straight man and a straight woman?
Three kids, a mistress and two divorce lawyers.
2. Good: Your wife's not talking to you.
Bad: She wants a divorce.
Ugly: She's a lawyer.
3. Good: Your son is finally maturing.
Bad: He's involved with the Woman next door.
Ugly: So are you.
To be fair, OP, I think your jokes was actually a gay joke in disguise. It calls out their different nature by shouting "DON'T LOOK THIS WAY," so to speak.
But it was a good line.
Anyway, here are some sample straight jokes.
How is a straight guy like tofu?
Squishy, unattractive and no taste.
What do you get when you cross a straight man and a straight woman?
Three kids, a mistress and two divorce lawyers.
2. Good: Your wife's not talking to you.
Bad: She wants a divorce.
Ugly: She's a lawyer.
3. Good: Your son is finally maturing.
Bad: He's involved with the Woman next door.
Ugly: So are you.
Is it okay to gay jokes? I don't like making gay jokes so I don't make straight jokes either. It doesn't seem right to do one but then not do the other
Once we can hear any joke, be it about others or about ourselves, we have truly become accepting. The moment our differences bring laughter instead of anger is the moment we are one.
That being said, does anyone know a funny straight joke? I'd really like to hear one, I'm way depressed right now and could use a laugh.
That being said, does anyone know a funny straight joke? I'd really like to hear one, I'm way depressed right now and could use a laugh.
