I doubt they’d ban me — I’ve had a couple of posts locked in the Past because they fell afoul of the community standards … but I didn’t get banned, just told I had to remove the offending elements, if I wanted them unlocked.
And, no, you’re not supposed to like it, just laugh at it … in the same way I laugh at blatantly nonsensical misandry — Jo Brand makes me piss myself laughing.
It’s written ‘in character’ … like Alf Garnett
Writer Johnny Speight […] defended the Alf Garnett character, saying: “If you do the character correctly, he just typifies what you hear — not only in pubs but in golf clubs around the country. To make him truthful he’s got to say those things, and they are nasty things. But I feel as a writer that they should be out in the open so we can see how daft these comparisons are.” — Wikipedia.
… or Rupert Rigsby.
I can‘t portray the ludicrousness of the mindset without writing it in all it’s ludicrousness … it has to be over the top — otherwise the danger is that it really does fall afoul of Poe’s Law … and becomes simply nasty rather than ludicrous.
You take offense because you are a woman and, therefore, experience the reality of it … it’s close to to home, close to the bone, for you. But, if you were a Mac/iPhone user, you could take just as much offense at my bigoted outbursts about them. Or, if you were a frothing at the mouth brexiter, you’d doubtless take offense at my Zone 3 diatribes (you wouldn’t believe the amount of hatred of London and Londoners there is in the rest of the UK ¹ ). And then there was my recent dig at HR …
Try not to fall into the current trend for trigger warnings and safe spaces; they have their time place and I do not target the innocent and/or helpless, nor do I make light of the things to which they pertain, because I recognise that some people may be so and I don’t wish to dredge up painful experiences ². Albeit I do go in for ‘shock jock’ as well, to make people squirm, my real focus is the bigoted … by making myself the butt of the joke by portraying bigotry for what it is: ludicrous nonsense.
Women make up 52% of the World’s population … if they can’t give me a good kicking for my efforts then, frankly, I don’t know what to think any more — standing on a hilltop and waving my willy at you all … ready to run from the mob, laughing like a lunatic as I go, just isn’t what it used to be *sigh*
Seriously … we both know you’re not immature enough to imagine I mean it, so don’t — just chase me, throw (small, please) rocks at me ³, whatever … I’m just looking for a young-animal play-fight with people who know how to not take themselves (or me) too seriously 😉
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¹ Consider how often you hear from the more irate in the ‘regions’ that Londoners are an out of touch elite … as though there weren’t horrific levels of poverty to be found here: to those who know nothing about London, it’s a sink of depravity where the streets are paved with gold extracted from the tooth fillings of hard-working salt-of-the-earth folk like themselves … and they’re only too happy to voice their bigoted hatred for it and its inhabitants — what do you think my Zone 3 posts are all about?
https://whereangelsfeartotread.medium.com/social-cleansing-for-a-better-world-6423ebcb57ae
https://extranewsfeed.com/ill-think-of-a-witty-title-for-this-later-you-ingrates-efbd92f60c6
² I poke fun at paedophiles and paedophilia, for instance, but I don’t make light of their victims’ plight, nor do suggest that paedophilia is itself a cause for mirth.
³ Can you believe that the Boys Are Stupid. Throw Rocks At Them T-shirt got banned recently?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_are_stupid,_throw_rocks_at_them!_controversy
