# Twixter, a question about your mod note in the joke thread

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**Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/69 "2012-07-24T22:26:20Z")

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> [@bup](#):
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> I don’t see number 3. Being a jerk and hate speech are against the rules.

Enforcement is, shall we say, haphazard.

More to the point of my comment, there are all kinds of attitudes and assertions which could be construed as “negative stereotypes” of various degrees. Politics, religion, culture, lifestyle. You can’t really talk about this stuff without at least glancing off some stereotypical views.

For example,

> [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/11):
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> He said he couldn’t tolerate women jabbering-on. And all men will agree with him there.

Now, this comment was challenged right away, but it was also acknowledged,

> [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/15):
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> Jabbering women is a stereotype, but one based on some truth.

Then a counter stereotype,

> [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/17):
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> No, men jabber on endlessly about sports, someone playing sports, how their kids are doing in sports, etc. They gather in clusters of 3-4 of them and stand there reciting sports facts and figures and obsessing over everything from how good some high school football player looks, to wondering what so-and-so for the Chiefs is doing in retirement. Ironically, not a one of them would actually pry themselves off the couch on the weekend to actually _play_ sports and get active and potentially healthy.

This was poked at in turn.

This is all fine, right? Never mind what you think _of_ the ideas being expressed, one way or the other; the point is that there’s nothing wrong with putting them out and talking about them. None of the people in the thread come across as jerkish or hateful to any reasonable reader, do they?

But wait! Are these _jokes_ being spun off?

> [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/25):
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> Eh, typical women, always complaining about something or other, who knows what. I wasn’t really listening.

> [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/27):
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> Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ really?.. _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_

> [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/29):
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> My wife complained that unlike males she doesn’t enjoy watching endless shots of space ships flying through space and space opera fiction.
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> Where do I report her to the misandry comission?😛

:eek:

> [@bup](#):
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> If we were at the advanced humor level, we could talk about how someone could use a negative-stereotype-joke _ironically_, but that’s outside the scope of this level.

For some.

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