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Is there room for humor in feminism?

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LadyJaneGreyspen · 15/06/2018 12:20

Or are we just so fucked that we can t even laugh into/from the abyss.

Gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

I was locked in the stationary cupboard and banned but am back, most likely not for long but
hey can we use 　女性　　? or is that against these new rules

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smithsinarazz · 16/06/2018 22:28

I may have mentioned bikes on here before but.. There is A) a facebook group campaigning against cyclists where I live. (Previously I may have mentioned that it's run by a pimp. It is. ) There is also B) a nice, well-behaved group who produce beautiful, well-balanced, fully-referenced posts about how good cycling is for health and the urban environment which nobody reads.
Now recently some disgruntled cyclist set up a group specifically to rip the piss out of Group A. It burgeoned! And grew phenomenally! And the next thing you know, it's being featured in the local rag because our friend the pimp got wind of it and called the police for "hate crime". It's all great publicity!!
Humour is a bit of a blunt instrument - because brevity is the soul of wit - but it gets people's attention and - if people are laughing at your jokes, you've got them on side.

AngryAttackKittens · 16/06/2018 01:09

It’s like Gogol, but TV.

Perfect!

LapsedHumanist · 16/06/2018 01:08

Agree Kittens. It’s like Gogol, but TV.

Season 2 starts tomorrow. Torn between watching week to week or saving them up for a binge.

AngryAttackKittens · 16/06/2018 00:49

Atlanta is the funniest thing in TV in years.

LapsedHumanist · 16/06/2018 00:47

Yes. It’s good to highlight the absurd, break down barriers and build alliances.

Anyone seen Atlanta Season 1 Ep8 btw? Should be compulsory viewing.

MsBeee · 16/06/2018 00:03

Sorry it’s the Is this for real or a bit fishy thread

MsBeee · 16/06/2018 00:00

head over to the pink news fishy thread for a laugh !!

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LadyJaneGreyspen · 15/06/2018 23:07

MsBee Why MsBee thank you for your kindness. I will cross stitch you a sampler of Emmeline Pankhurst.

‘We’re gonna need a bigger hill’ 😂😂

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MsBeee · 15/06/2018 22:41

Lady Jane

Have you been a naughty feminist. In the GC closet with you.

Sorry to hear about your breasting problems. I will knit you a specialist bra. And specialist goggles to protect your eyes.

mancheeze · 15/06/2018 22:31

Plenty of women who post online make me lol, I just wonder how effectively I'm conveying the true sense of my laughter.

Like someone on here said many men in dresses were like walking Duluth models or summat like that and I desperately wanted to convey how funny I thought that was.

BettyFloop · 15/06/2018 22:30

I think humour is one of feminism's greatest assets. It reaches people in ways that nothing else can.
Plus, it keeps us sane(ish)

Clinicalwaste · 15/06/2018 22:30

‘We’re gonna need a bigger hill’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

AngryAttackKittens · 15/06/2018 22:28

Also possibly portable loos and a snack kiosk.

Popchyk · 15/06/2018 22:27

Made me laugh the other day when there was a lot of "that will be the hill that I die on" stuff regarding MNHQ's diktat (dicktat? Wink) of only referring to male people by the sex that they are not.

And someone said: "We're gonna need a bigger hill".

That was a reference to the film Jaws for the younger folks on here.

AngryAttackKittens · 15/06/2018 22:14

Humor tends to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, when done well, and clearly we can't have that.

For which specific offense were you temporarily exiled to the stationary cupboard.

(Bit of a cheap substitute for Siberia, it has to be said.)

Clinicalwaste · 15/06/2018 22:13

There is loads of laugh out loud humor. Man Friday in a Mankini, sandy draws badly. Some stuff that is not meant to be funny is hilarious like 278 genders or whatever we are up to now. Yes I know it is bleak sometimes. 🍷

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LadyJaneGreyspen · 15/06/2018 22:04

MsBeee I cant burn my bra becausemy boobs would knock my eyes out when i run . Oh wait no need to run the boys can do that for me.......

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LadyJaneGreyspen · 15/06/2018 22:01

womanformallyknownaswoman yes it was my rubbish pen jokes and being a lady that got me in trouble. I know better now. I am just quietly stabbing my cross stitch like a good little girl.

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MsBeee · 15/06/2018 22:00

I also am very busy knitting my feminist manifesto

MsBeee · 15/06/2018 21:59

Hello

I have absolutely no sense of humour, really to suggest such a thing.

I’m a feminist I’m far to busy bunging my bra at patriarchy.

womanformallyknownaswoman · 15/06/2018 15:13

Welcome back Lady - so you were consigned to an offsite gulag? For stationery crimes?

I was reminiscing about the stationery cupboard just yesterday - it seemed saner in there.

Freespeecher · 15/06/2018 14:30

Humor is non-U.

Bowlofbabelfish · 15/06/2018 13:27

Humour is essential. I have an extremely dark sense of humour that I generally keep off here because it doesn’t always come across well via the medium of text on a screen.
But if we cant laugh at ourselves and our situations we are screwed. And if you ever come across a group who respond to mockery with violence you know exactly where you stand, eh?

There’s also a BIG difference between the subject of a joke and the target of a joke.

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LadyJaneGreyspen · 15/06/2018 13:20

SporadicSpartacus
mum is 母　which is a picture graph of boobies.

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SporadicSpartacus · 15/06/2018 13:04

Interestingly - in Mandarin Chinese, the he / she pronoun is pronounced ‘taa’ for both sexes, although it’s written differently:

她 She
他 He