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To find this Dolly joke meme in bad taste?

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ITanya78 · 27/08/2026 10:22

I’ll just start by saying I do have a sense of humour so please don’t accuse me of not having one!

There’s a meme going round, mostly posted by men, of a coffin with moulded breast shapes on the lid referring to Dolly Parton’s passing.

I know she used to joke about it herself and may well have laughed at this but it feels a bit bad taste to me and a bit depressing in this day and age to see a late, great woman (or any woman!) reduced to just her breast size. Wish we could focus on her amazing character and all the good she did!

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larkstar · 27/08/2026 10:53

Nannyfannybanny · 27/08/2026 10:34

She would have laughed, she made many a joke about her cartoon size figure.

Agreed @Nannyfannybanny
RIP Dolly

To find this Dolly joke meme in bad taste?
EmeraldShamrock000 · 27/08/2026 10:47

It is tacky. There is a lot of people who are easily amused. Dolly brought generations together, she is a Queen, my mother, sisters, nieces and nephews are all big fans.
Old bones, reminds me of some lovely evenings, when my niece as a little one about 3 she would sing “these aul bones” to Mam, her nanny, in her best Dolly Parton husky voice.

frenchnoodle · 27/08/2026 10:46

ITanya78 · 27/08/2026 10:22

I’ll just start by saying I do have a sense of humour so please don’t accuse me of not having one!

There’s a meme going round, mostly posted by men, of a coffin with moulded breast shapes on the lid referring to Dolly Parton’s passing.

I know she used to joke about it herself and may well have laughed at this but it feels a bit bad taste to me and a bit depressing in this day and age to see a late, great woman (or any woman!) reduced to just her breast size. Wish we could focus on her amazing character and all the good she did!

She made jokes about her surgery and figure a lot.

But what's fantastic about Dolly is she actually carved her way up from nothing and earned the respect from what we're "manly" men in the country music field, at a time when women just didn't do that. It didn't even take that long for her to be an Equal, and changing her body apparently, according to her made her confident.

Lexy2345 · 27/08/2026 10:45

She was proud of her enhanced chest and would have found this funny, I think. She was highly respected and almost universally loved, her cartoon-like figure was just one tiny aspect of the woman.

Screamingabdabz · 27/08/2026 10:42

It’s sad that after all her amazing career, underestimated talent and legacy that that’s how she’s epitomised. I don’t find it funny.

Stormyrose · 27/08/2026 10:38

She’d have found this funny, she herself made jokes about her boobs, one notable one when someone asked her if she lifted weights, she said yes every time she stood up.

one thing about her is she was very self depreciating. And seemed to have a sense of humour,

Nannyfannybanny · 27/08/2026 10:34

She would have laughed, she made many a joke about her cartoon size figure.

PurplebudsWhitebuds · 27/08/2026 10:33

Being older I remember the period where Dolly was regarded as a bit of a joke by a lot of people who weren't into country music and people very commonly and openly joked about her breasts because they didn't appreciate who she was or her talents.

I thought we had moved past this era and that people now recognised her for the amazing talented woman she was, and her kindness and the force for good that she was.

These disgusting people who still only see her as a pair of breast sound like misogynistic dinosaurs

MissChanandlerBonng · 27/08/2026 10:32

I saw it and thought it was funny. She was the first to bring up them too, agree with PP that she would also have laughed.

ITanya78 · 27/08/2026 10:29

Yeah maybe you’re right, I just felt a bit jarred by it and all the “tit” jokes but maybe as a flat chested person I’m more sensitive!

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daisyydaisyy · 27/08/2026 10:28

She would have laughed at it I think.

CanSeeClearlyNowTheRainHasGone · 27/08/2026 10:26

I think black humour is ok, when it's about a person that virtually everybody revered and who was very specific about her appearance and her doing it from a position of being secure about who and what she was.

Personally I was waiting to see an obituary along the lines of "its all gone tits up for DP".

Perhaps I have a higher tolerance than most.