Humor is a big part of my life; it's gotten me through some rough times. So I think it's fitting that I start a blog devoted to humor.
One of the things that sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom is our sense of humor (without getting into arguments on what the biological/neurological origins of it might be).
I think that I personally have a particularly dark and twisted sense of humor. I enjoy dark humor, black humor, gallows humor, humor that intrudes on people's comfort zones regarding culture, society, family, gender.
And don't expect me always to be politically correct; I can laugh at some of the most historically racist/sexist jokes (does that make me bad?).
I think of it as laughing at the stereotype, not at anyone in particular. I also find that there must be a grain of truth or they're not really funny.
And what about jokes where the same implication (stupidity, craftiness, hyper-sexuality) has been applied to a variety of despised minorities over the years?
In that case it seems like the bigoted quality of the humor is only incidental, and it must actually be saying something deeper about the human condition; so it seems a shame to toss it out.
I also laugh at jokes poking fun at myself; my gender (male), ethnicity (waspy), sexuality (straight), my education level (high), my nerdiness and literary pretentions: I engage in equal opportunity ridicule. ;-)
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