Mrebo said:
Trident said:
I don't understand why anyone would be sensitive to short-bus jokes and then ride along with clown porn posts as if that was much more normal.
What if one of us had a brother/sister/child who was a clown?
What if I'm offended about pornography being thought of as funny?
But really, what about fat kid jokes? What if one of us is fat? Do we just stop telling jokes because some one might get offended? Or do we just deal with the fact that life is full of shit and sometimes telling jokes is just a way of dealing with it from time to time? I mean after our problems one thing that kept us going wasn't clamming up about it every time it came up, but just laughing about it more and more. We delt with it and it got better and people didn't feel awkward around us because they were afraid they'd offend us. But we have thick skins I guess.
Let's face it, we're all living on a tiny little planet in an increadibly vast universe and we and even our solar system is going to die one day so who really has time to worry about stuff anyway?
Obviously nobody is making fun of Frink's daughter but he is sensitive to jokes relating to people with intellectual disabilities, made however innocently. My position is basically that even if I think a person is being too sensitive about something, in a small circle such as this, once we know it bothers them, we can be sensitive to that. If I had an unfortunate run-in with a clown as a child and expressed that, I hope others would show the same sensitivity.
OK, you might have a point. I just read Frink a little differently. I saw him as an attention-seeker and every attention seeker I have ever known has not hesitated to talk about their problems in order to gain more attention. By drawing an imaginary line and pretending to be offended over the mention that some people have disabilities that would be out of place super-imposed on others he seemed to be making a topic emotionally charged for no reason.
We all have problems and I doubt he would be impressed if we all ruined every one of his jokes with a different set of our problems every day.
But on the chance that I am wrong and this is really emotionally distressing to the guy who has no problem talking casually about horse-clown-porn, I will not make fun of short-busses.
I am new to this site and don't want to come in here and ruin it for those who know the score better than I do.