o dovada ca nu toti kakademicii sunt neaparat feministi si PC.. Un articol in The Daily Barometer (http://barometer.orst.edu/vnews/display.v)
QuotePlease, sir ... can I have a sexist joke
Barometer Staff Report
Q: What is the definition of making love?
A: Something a woman does while a guy is f****** her.
If you are anything like me and you are laughing at this joke, you are passively giving countenance to an assault on all women, since you are bolstering an already superegoized, patriarchal language and further undermining the historical plight of the fairer sex or so feminists like my girlfriend would have you believe. I have to put my hand up on this one. I laugh at many sexist jokes. I also laugh at many racist jokes, handicapped jokes, jokes about diseases, jokes about my family and yes, even jokes which are pointed at me.
Programs such as the British hit sitcom The Office are a way of life in my country, literally. The British like nothing more than a bit of shameless raillery, since a joke should be one of the few blessings in life, where language is not tainted by this dug-up fear of saying something ridiculous.
Yet, sexist jokes are a faux pas in America today whereby a person is worthy of anothers disdain, solely because he or she can laugh at issues of sex, which American ideology would have us all shaking about in our beds. Just look at how the American version of the The Office turned out; apart from the show being made more relevant to an American audience with an array of interpolated scenes, all jokes regarding sex, race and disabilities were conveniently omitted so as not to offend a fragile American public and see how critics panned it. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the stiff of the modernizing world, American political correctness. Lets laugh at it awhile.
Personally, I do not believe that jokes about sexual difference are where stereotypes and prejudices begin; jokes are where stereotypes and prejudices are undermined, explored for what they really are, irrationalized and neutralized.
If we cannot negate the ridiculous world by laughing at it in our day-to-day lives, especially when there are only a handful of people in the room, we give the oppressive aspects of our social climate more credit by taking them seriously, even though sexism and racism do not deserve the time of day. Joking about sex is not burying ones head in the sand or inflaming a sensitive issue; joking about sex acknowledges that no one escapes ridicule because we are all born equal. What sexist jokes are really saying is: we should all have moved on enough that we can joke about these things, without having to fear that WE ARE DIFFERENT. A woman is a she, and a man is a he remember the birds and the bees talk (it might have been a while now)?
Nevertheless, identification by sex is a risqué business now that political correctness plays into the hands of supposed feminists, in jokes and even regular speech, while the biological differences between men and women still thrive, no matter how much progress tries to suppress the fact.
The joke that I have here given you as an example does not fairly represent women, but it does not fairly represent men either. It would be wonderful for a man if he could guarantee that every time a woman is having sex with him she is making love but I doubt that this is the case. And to say that men only f*** women is not true either, it is only a stereotype. Some jokes are funny because they are true, while others are funny because they are so far from the truth but neither method should be off-limits in my opinion.
We all know a joke has about as much resonance as a badly timed fart; it can be hilarious or damn-right offensive, it might even linger a little too long, but that is not to say that the culprit deserves to be reprimanded, or rooted out for the evil he is, just because he is performing a public service by outing the frigid thoughts of a nation. Sorry I meant he or she (I would not want to be politically incorrect here). So then, why is making a joke at womens expense not funny? Or to rephrase the question, why do supposed feminists have to sully the name of genuine feminists by not being able to take a joke? Better still, why is it socially acceptable that anyone who goes by the name feminist is automatically given invincible status by political correctness against the easy pickings of language?
The answer is: American political correctness seeks to govern thought and relations between people in a strangely Marxist way, and those people who would claim to be feminists are empowered by a cruel twist of fate. The American ideology promotes a culture that owns its own means of production, language, to force a classless and egalitarian society into being. And while such a state does not infringe on the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, social censorship saturates American society to such an extent that freedom of speech is a fallacy, not just because feminists say so, but because we have been indoctrinated into believing such views already.
Is it any wonder that we have to laugh, not at sexual difference itself, but at American political correctness, which tries to govern it? Where do they think the jokes come from, I wonder? Maybe one day political correctness will have succeeded in making all difference off-limits, and there will be nothing left to laugh about anymore, since by that time all jokes will have been ruled faux pas. Such is the world we are headed towards, but is this the type of world you want to live in? I know where I stand on this issue, and I am laughing all the way.
futere artikol, mersi!
scris de un puşti undergrad, 21 ani tops.
alta gluma sexista:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubhOxoU7I9M