Jokes on gay people
Family Guy will no longer be making jokes around the LGBT community
The widespread FOX adult animated series, Family Guy, is widely known for its edgy humor and often revolting subject manner, which has placed it under both critical admiration and steady backlash. However, it seems that the show’s staple of making fun of everything no matter how cruel seems to be changing with the growing sensitivity of the viewer. Recently, producers of the popular show have announced that they would no longer be including jokes targeted towards the LGBTQ community as they now consider these unacceptable for today’s audience. The judgment has created a lot of controversy and divisive opinions, especially with our own staff.
Ben:
Family guy is known to be unapologetic when it comes to its satire. The show has poked joy at many controversial topics like race, gender, abortions, politics, 9/11, religion, and up until now, the LGBTQ community. To me, it makes absolutely no sense for the writers and producers of the show to stop making jokes about gay people. Whether you love the style of the present or you are greatly offended by it, this blatant act of stripping away the show
Gay jokes just aren’t funny
I would like to ponder that none of my friends are homophobic. I have friends who are gay, and I’ve never known one of my straight friends to declare discomfort when we all hang out together.
However, some of my very complete friends still make queer jokes, or they’ll tell, “That’s so gay.” In that phrase, the synonyms “gay” is used as a synonym for “stupid.”
Often when one of my friends is angry with a professor or a teaching assistant about the amount of reading for a class or the difficulty of an exam, he or she will say, “That’s so gay.”
I’ll respond by telling my friend that the joke is offensive. And he’ll say, “It’s just a joke.”
Well, why is it funny? What is it about debasing a community of people that seems funny?
Instead of justifying these offensive jokes by claiming that they are entertaining, we need to analyze exactly why they appear off that way. In my opinion, the joke often stems from fundamental condescension.
Frequently, we acknowledge a different way of animation that deviates from the societal norm and instead of educating ourselves, we laugh at it.
It’s the same kind of “humor” that would apply to calling someone greedy a “Jew” or telling a gr
By Micah Prussack, Campaigns Intern
Humor has lengthy been used as a positive social tool, helping to bridge gaps between communities, share facts, and understand the world. However, it has the potential to negative as skillfully. Jokes at the expense of the LGBTQ community, which are often labeled reductively as “gay jokes,” can be funny. But they are often discriminatory and destructive, serving as a reproduction of oppressive social norms that have haunted the LGBTQ community for generations. Jokes at the expense of the LGBTQ people are just one example of the negative potential of humor, but this is connected to a larger struggle.
Collective liberation is the recognition that all of our struggles and identities are intimately connected, and that working together is necessary to build a better society. It is the belief that every person is worthy of dignity and respect and that, within systems of oppression, everyone suffers. What’s so hilarious about that? And what does it have to undertake with media, comedy, and non-LGBTQ people making a joke at the expense of the LGBTQ community? The retort is something that is often described as “punching down.”
The ideas of “punching down” and “
Gay jokes not so funny
In a recent sketch on Saturday Night Stay, a cashier compliments Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis playing a cute pair of gentlemen out antiquing together. This sends them into an annoyed find for a way to inform people that they are NOT gay, and are in reality two single, handsome and eligible men looking to impress women as much as the next guy. The lie down of the sketch is a silly ad for matching “just friends” booty shorts, but the message from the beginning sets the tone for the rest: it’s not cool to be gay, so escape making people believe you are at all costs.
I am frustrated at the pseudo-progressive culture which continually allows sketches like this to pass as entertaining. Supposedly, gay is generally OK in our modern, broad-minded society. Most mainstream television series’ and movies don’t outwardly articulate hatred towards queer folks, so one can believe, based on a quick flip through the channels that it’s safe and acceptable to spot as LGBTQ. However, I constantly watch the motif perpetuated by the SNL sketch complicate the message that male lover is OK, but if someone ever assumes a linear person swings the other way? That’s just offensive. So offensive
My Partner and His Bros Joke About Gay Sex All the Time
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Dear How to Execute It,
My partner and I have been together for six happy years. Here is my (female) problem: He and our gaming friends (all male) have this habit of making gay jokes constantly. They think it is hysterical to just tack some fellatio-related quip onto every. damn. sentence. I’m exaggerating, but it is frequent. I am part of a text chain with these guys, and it is relentless—I rely on my husband to tell me when we have plans with them because I have to mute it unless I want to be inundated. These jokes aren’t hateful, per se, but they’re just constantly referencing male lover, male-on-male sex, and to me, there often seems to be no discernible punchline. I see and speak to these men (and they are indeed men—we’re well out of our 20s) often and consider games with them to be a enormous and rewarding component of my social life. I am the only person in the group who is not a hetero man, and I notice that if I endeavor to say “Enough, already!,” I stand to slightly alienate myself, though they’d respect my