Mavster
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Terrible Jokes Thread
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MarkMas
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Cheers.
It's only a bit of fun after all
OK, if people are are going to persist with this....
The set up seems to be: "Hey, someone who used to be a man, but is now a woman, won a beauty pageant"
And the punchline seems to be: "Well, then, God should kill them."
Could someone explain to me why it is (a) a joke and (b) a bit of fun?
It only seems to work as 'fun' and a 'joke' if you wanted to say something horrible, but also wanted to try to disguise how horrible it is.
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It’s a joke imo as clearly the judges need to visit specsavers!
I suspect most of the female partiicipants and most naturally born women feel the result is somewhat of a joke too and are mightily fecked off by the way this nonsense is heading.
Won’t get into the religious element but once again woke is a joke!
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MarkMas
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I'm with you. I think 'terrible jokes' and most things should be taken un-seriously. But I just feel if you don't call out hate when you see it, then you are complicit.
I find Wattie's post, basically saying 'fit teen babes, posing for male appreciation to win a scholarship, must be cross that a fat bloke got the prize' absurd and annoying, but I guess I would let it pass.
But 'a biological male claiming to be a woman should be killed' is too much to just slip by.
Also, in the trans debate 'biological' gets my goat. What they mean is 'My brain tells me with certainty that your gender is absolutely defined by your anatomy, not by your, er, brain.
And why the obsession with trans? A group of gammony geezers I was with the other day, were arguing hotly that trans was "ruining women's sport". But it turned out they could not name a single woman playing professional team sports. They have zero interest in women's sports, but are just industriously finding excuses to attack a tiny group of people they fear or dislike.
'Woke is a joke' is just a shorthand for highlighting rare silliness as an excuse to go on being seriously unpleasant to marginalised people.
There is no 'religious element', unless you mean selectively picking out bits of the Bible, Koran etc that allow you to oppress whoever you currently want to oppress.
This is the 'religious element':
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Mavster
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Lets no dive too deep into this. The funny thing for me was that the man was clearly the ugliest contestant in the pic. God made a blokey like "CREATOR" comment. The gag didn't come across to me as being rude about Trans people in general. I'm in a minority group, and wasn't offended at all. If you don't like a borderline joke, just ignore it.I'm with you. I think 'terrible jokes' and most things should be taken un-seriously. But I just feel if you don't call out hate when you see it, then you are complicit.
I find Wattie's post, basically saying 'fit teen babes, posing for male appreciation to win a scholarship, must be cross that a fat bloke got the prize' absurd and annoying, but I guess I would let it pass.
But 'a biological male claiming to be a woman should be killed' is too much to just slip by.
Also, in the trans debate 'biological' gets my goat. What they mean is 'My brain tells me with certainty that your gender is absolutely defined by your anatomy, not by your, er, brain.
And why the obsession with trans? A group of gammony geezers I was with the other day, were arguing hotly that trans was "ruining women's sport". But it turned out they could not name a single woman playing professional team sports. They have zero interest in women's sports, but are just industriously finding excuses to attack a tiny group of people they fear or dislike.
'Woke is a joke' is just a shorthand for highlighting rare silliness as an excuse to go on being seriously unpleasant to marginalised people.
There is no 'religious element', unless you mean selectively picking out bits of the Bible, Koran etc that allow you to oppress whoever you currently want to oppress.
This is the 'religious element':
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