Word: humors
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...helped to organize in the past. In an accent betraying a hint of an Irish brogue, she says the Poles and the Irish have a lot in common. "We socialize in the same way. We know how to talk to each other. We understand each other's sense of humor. It's great...
What the Bad People misunderstand is that the gay-related humor I share with some of my close male heterosexual friends has far more to do with the enjoyment of a good joke than with homophobia. It goes without saying, of course, that we are “post-homophobic” (or—and here I must give credit to blockmate Jeremy Hartman—“PoHoMoPho”). Simply put, for me it is a given that the value my straight-boy friends place on me has fundamentally nothing to do with my being...
There are folks who would wonder why I, a gay boy, would find these episodes funny. They might be appalled at my blockmates’ homophobia, and they might speculate that I pathetically accept their sensibilities, including their sick, hateful sense of humor as the price to pay for their friendship. Some of my friends and I—we all rigorously adhere to an ethic of cultural relativism—call these people, “The Bad People.” They are on par with people who make conversation during television shows, hold opinions about Undergraduate Council...
...that’s the thread in post-hate humor, whether it’s post-homophobia, post-racism, post-anything-not-very-nice. So within post-homophobia, for instance, is the implicit assumption that the teller of the joke (and the audience, too) is not homophobic, which means the joke teller is free to trot out every formerly “offensive” stereotype or sentiment in the service of a good joke...
...person because she could like me not just despite, but for my lovable gayness. Similarly, I have some straight friends who, having several gay friends and being politically liberal, feel they’ve cleared their names enough to indulge in “ironically” anti-gay humor, which often consists of simply referencing a person’s homosexuality, but without actually forming a witticism...