Are Sexist remarks more socially acceptable than Racial ones?

Great Debates
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[QUOTE=NinetyWt]
Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny?

I don’t get the hate for “sit like a lady”. That seems more like politeness. Heaven knows I’ve told my son to “act like a gentleman” forty million times when he was a child.
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Perhaps, but “sit like a lady” could be taken as (and if addressed to HRC by a heckler in a public setting almost certainly would be meant as) not, “keep your legs crossed,” but “sit down and shut up.”

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[QUOTE=NinetyWt]
Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny?
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Mostly, but not always. Sometimes they’re meant to be ice-breakers, or to diffuse a tense situation or to strengthen social bonds, or to impress a date.

And there’s a difference between “supposed to be funny” and “funny”. I’m pretty sure “I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a drunk! Alcoholics go to meetings!” is “supposed to be funny”, but it’s not actually funny.

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Perhaps, but “sit like a lady” could be taken as (and if addressed to HRC by a heckler in a public setting almost certainly would be meant as) not, “keep your legs crossed,” but “sit down and shut up.”
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Right. I admit that part of why I was thinking of the phrase is a bit of ‘bleed-over’ from another thread.

[QUOTE=WhyNot]
And there’s a difference between “supposed to be funny” and “funny”. I’m pretty sure “I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a drunk! Alcoholics go to meetings!” is “supposed to be funny”, but it’s not actually funny.
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Agreed, and there’s a difference between being jocular and being boorish. My problem with the “Iron my shirt” is that a person with manners knows the joke is lame. It’s oooooold. Time to come up with something new, already.

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[QUOTE=Malacandra]

You can find all sorts of articles on the Internet, and books too and I shouldn’t wonder, arguing that the moon landings were all faked on a studio set. Granted there’s a great modern mythology about the “Burning Times”, and it’s popular with a certain set of victim feminists, but that doesn’t mean it’s founded on especially solid facts or reasoning.
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You must have missed the part where I wrote that I didn’t agree with their assessments. Thanks for the lecture anyway.

Marc