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hallmark007 Posted at 1-31 14:41
Your right people call themselves all sorts of things that’s their prerogative they are entitled to do that to themselves but we are not entitled to make jokes about others that refer to them in derogatory terms .
Would you think it’s ok to tell jokes here using the N word after all it’s just a joke, would you think it’s ok to tell jokes about Irish people English people etc, handicapped people etc etc, well I don’t and I don’t think it’s right for any man to refer to women as whales , maybe you didn’t get the joke but it’s punch line was about large woman being called whales.
First of all wasn’t even a shaming joke... because continued to flirt, if it was a shaming joke then the joke would been on him not them.. was a joke of misunderstanding.. but in a bit of bolder way.
Secondly, it’s all about context and how situation plays out... let’s put it this way, I’m more and mostly upset by people directly attacking each other.. for example that time someone called Christina ugly, that is unacceptable and of course I bit their head off as did other people too, because you don’t personally attack someone, if the joke of Wales/whales was targeted someone specific here it isn’t acceptable, but it wasn’t. Sure it was off topic and random but so what..? Least of the problems.
As for banter about cultures, Look at it this way.. topgear up always bantered about Americans like a running joke which it was, I don’t think any of us really cared and we loved their show! now that trio with their new show is owned by an American company (amazon) and we continue to allow their banter either way.. dome other jokes they made I think are targeted though..
As for using N word... that’s completely up to context since multiple forms of the N words not all are completely offensive.. long as it isn’t baiting or attacking I don’t care...personally.
Homophobic or transphobic stuff I don’t stand for either, not really many if any acceptable jokes. However some people are way too sensitive on this, I do have gay friends, that was something that bothered them was people being too sensitive about topics. For example, one day they called me over to help install their new TV, and they called it gay.. they said “this Shizz is being gay, we can’t get it installed, can you come over sometimes this week and help put it up?” Where as that will offend some people now a days...which is ironic on so many levels that it both funny and confusing.. I’m sure they aren’t bothered by the gay jokes that topgear makes either because they watched them.
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