Comments on: For Those Of You Who Like Beer

By: AppleEnthusiast

AppleEnthusiast — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:33:54 +0000

noel, I disagree, I think it is better to laugh at stereotypes than to give them power by making them taboo. Also, the humor in this joke is not really built upon stereotypes, but by misdirection and an odd pairing of motifs

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:57:49 +0000

@Noel –
What humanity in general needs is to be less sensitive to specific actions and more sensitive to intentions.

If you mean to harm me, I take offense. If you don’t mean to harm me, no reason other than bruised pride would lead me to take offense.

The article is a joke intended to bring merriment and poke fun at societal gender-based norms of acceptable behavior by putting them into a novel context. It’s really only harmful if you interpret it as such.

By: jcarr

jcarr — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:53:17 +0000

lmfao. I’m a girl, and this is effing hilarious.

By: noel

noel — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:50:27 +0000

I think joke is offensive and reinforces stereotypes of women that are harmful to both men and women. I’m sure we can do better… We don’t need to act like neanderthals, or do we?

It doesn’t matter if it is meant to be only a joke, the joke still reinforces stereotypes we, men, use to dominate and abuse women. I don’t think the author was trying to humiliate women or preserve male privileges consciously, or that everyone who laughs is a horrible person, but even if we mean no harm, we can still do harm.

I don’t mean to attack anyone with this comment, nor start a flamewar. I leave it just as a thought, maybe others find it interesting.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:41:42 +0000

what was that part about thinking rationally? I think ainsley just proved a point here. Stereotypes don’t come from nowhere.