I am very, very sorry, but you cant use a phrase like "using a strip club as an example to illustrate the tool", and not expect old skool dinosaurs like me not to fall about laughing.
Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing
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Re: Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing
#12If I happen to think that it is funny, who has the right to say that my opinions or the feelings that the "sexist jokes" bring to my brain are wrong? Obviously one should also try to minimize the amount of content that may possibly cause harm to any number of people in the target audience, but the problem has a very abstract nature going all the way down to how and where to say what to whom and who gets to decide whats right and what's wrong.
I often laugh at sexist jokes concerning both men and women. I don't take those jokes personally but I also agree that one has the right to disagree and express their opinions towards the content of different media. (if-by-whiskey?..)
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#13People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny. Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
> but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right?
Why?
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#14People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny. Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
It doesn't stop as there is to much to be gained from it...
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I fail to see how that is sexist. They aren't implying that their support team is women. It's a play on words. Perhaps they should have a jock strap there instead?
Re: Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing
#16People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny. Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
Well, that's sort of the issue. Not everyone's sense of humor is the same but people with different senses of humor are going to work together in the same office. In order to reduce conflict, joking about potentially sensitive things is generally discouraged in the workplace.
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#17Maybe a good rule for presenters would be to imagine what happens if they replace the photo of girls in bikinis with a photo of guys in bikinis. If that makes the presentation awkward, then bikinis are not the answer.
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#18People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny. Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
People laugh when they hear a "racist" joke because it's funny.
Maybe race related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about race somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
Re: Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing
#19People laugh when they hear a "sexist" joke because it's funny. Maybe gender related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? I mean, where does this political correctness stop?
Stop making the world a slightly shittier place.
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#20All those examples sounded perfectly harmless, I wonder what sort of humor would be acceptable to the author?
It's difficult to make a joke which no-one finds offensive, if you follow these complaints to their logical conclusion conferences would be very dry and dull.