mrt144":2g9ef6k3 said:
fenderbender123":2g9ef6k3 said:
I probably would have enjoyed this presentation. But, I have a sense of humor, and don't go around looking for reasons for me or anyone else to be offended.
Looking for reasons like 'every slide contained innuendo to a mostly female audience'? It's easy to find reasons when you're hit in the eyeballs repeatedly with them.
I think Kearly really touched on something that I would like to elaborate on. He mentioned he was "laughing at them" and not "with them". That's how I see it, as well. However, as an amateur comedian, I understand that a lot of people intentionally write/perform stuff with the intention of being laughed at. Most people assume writers/performers would never intentionally try to be laughed at, but that's simply not true.
Daniel Tosh does a lot of this. He says ridiculously offensive, over-the-top things (like rape jokes, making fun of poor people, etc.) because he wants people to laugh at him...which means the people are laughing at the thought as well. Maybe some people don't get that he actually wants people to laugh him, and think that anyone laughing must be laughing with him, thus they find him offensive, but Tosh gets the last laugh on those people because it's all by design.
People laugh at stuff like this not because they are thinking "yeah, women suck! Whooo, hahaha!"...if they did think that, they wouldn't really be laughing...they'd be just sitting there with a serious face going "Right? This is totally accurate!" So in other words, if this skit was designed to be funny, it's because they wanted people to laugh at how ridiculous the ideas are.
I make jokes like this all the time at my serving job. We hired this girl to do dishes for us, and on her first day I said to her "Doing dishes here is a great way to prepare for being a wife someday." And that's funny, not because women belong in the kitchen doing dishes, but because it's a dated idea that doesn't fit with society these days. Ever notice how if you watch a movie or TV show from like the 1940s, nobody makes jokes about women doing dishes? Because then, it was actually expected. But as time has passed, and women have assumed more roles in society, people joke about it because it's such a ridiculous, dated notion. It's basically saying "can you believe we used to think that?".
So basically, their only crime is trying to get people to laugh. Laughing is a good thing, IMO...so they didn't do anything wrong in my eyes.