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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Since when is it ok to tell others they don't get to do that?

I didn't. What I did say, in summary, was that it's a shitty thing to do in this case, and in so many others so very much like it. You are completely free to do shitty things, and I am completely free to call those things shitty.

But I don't see how "person attracted to gender enjoys seeing arousal in organs of that gender" is one of those.

It's a constant drumbeat, an ever-present thing around every corner. Even in a mildly amusing picture of a cat posted to a "funny" forum.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's a constant drumbeat, an ever-present thing around every corner. Even in a mildly amusing picture of a cat posted to a "funny" forum.

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I know it wasn't intentional. But this is a sex joke. I can't stop laughing at how spot-on this is as a description of the human sex drive.

On a more serious note, it sounds like you simply don't find this stuff funny. There's nothing wrong with that. But unless you can explain how a particular joke contributes to the hardships of someone, you can't just denounce it for simply not being your kind of funny.

If your argument for why this type of humour is harmful, is simply that it's everywhere, perhaps re-think why that is? You're not even making a point about this particular joke, you're simply claiming that the ubiquity of the subject of sex itself is bad? How does that make sense?

Are sex jokes making people think about it all the time?

Or is the omnipresence of sex in the human experience making people joke about it all the time?