On sexist jokes part 3

Humor is experienced when we experience absurdity that our minds cannot handle, which cause us to laugh. I talked a little bit about that in my last post. This post I want to talk about what subjects jokes normally discuss. The short answer is everything. If one tries, one can find humor in or from almost any object or situation (the appropriate time or environment for those jokes will be discussed later.). However, this does not particularly help me when trying to defend jokes at the expense of women, since many people don't agree with this.

Therefore, I will try and take another approach. Many jokes make use of stereotypes in order to be humorous (examples: Women talk all the time, Mexicans are lazy, Asians are smart, etc). However, this joke merely makes use of categorization, and many jokes that people find funny use this. For example, many people find political jokes funny and many friends and professors at my campus have made such jokes which people find hilarious (Note, this is probably because I am at a very liberal college, but the point still stands.). To give an even less controvertial topic, we often make fun of people who like certain things or have certain hobbies. People make fun of sports fans, Actors, Jersey Shore watchers, Gamers, or any other kind of thing that can be fit into a category. And when used in the proper place, these jokes can be hilarious. Why is it okay if we make fun of sports fans for cliche stereotypes that is not true of all of them, but not okay to poke fun at women from time to time?

I acknowledge that there is a time and a place for certain types of jokes. And I will discuss this in my next blog post.

In the mean time, thoughts? Critiques?