| The Ghost of RubangB said: It's in an in-group vs. out-group thing. If a group decides something's offensive... then it is. You can't call a woman a bitch, but that didn't stop feminists from creating http://bitchmagazine.org/ . Gays are doing the same thing now. If you say "what are you a queer" you're being an asshole, but if you refer to "the Queer community" with a capital Q, nobody will notice. You can make rape jokes all you want, but say one to a rape victim. You can say cancer jokes all you want, but say one to a cancer victim.
Here's an example for gamers: You can say to one of your friends who plays a lot of online FPS games, "After I own your ass I'm gonna teabag the fuck out of you." They'll most likely assume that you're using some weird metaphor about "pwning" them and then repeatedly crouching your character over theirs. Then say it to somebody you don't know. |
Bingo! this is the answer right here!... the 1st person to say it all thread i was come here ealier and explain it but was to tired.
its a group thing and the group can do it. ill expand outta racism.
1. Why can women jokingly call each other a bitch! or touch each others ass or breast, but if a guy did any of that( assuming he wasnt her BF or Hubby) he'd be in serious shit.
2. I have a gay couple that comes into my store all the time. last time his debit card wasnt working and he said why? and his BF jokingly says " its because your gay" now if a straight guy said that it would of been a issue.
your naive if you think we live in a world of REAL quality, we are seperated into groups and these groups have all there own do's and dont's
its one of those things where u gotta be in to understand. we hear jew jokes all the time and we laugh, but if your jewish it aint funny... lots of ignorance in this thread.( this in its self can be ignorant)
