LBO a comedy free zone?

[/ dave /]

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:

> No offense was intended, period.
> 
> Is humor becoming totally illegitimate  to "the left"

I hope not. In fact, I thought I'd noticed things moving encouragingly
in the other direction of late, nicely in tandem with some of the the
unexpected successes on various fronts. And I wouldn't want to be
connected with a humorless left, as I'm disinclined to associate myself
with self-defeating enterprises. Well-conceived humor can speed
understanding and connection between friend and foe alike.

As for cocksucking, I'm trying to imagine a convincing scenario that
might illustrate why it seems odd that a word describing something nice
that someone might do for one transforms itself all too readily into a
term of disgust and contempt when applied to one's foes. But in a
nutshell (so to speak), let us first establish that heterosexual males,
by definition, won't generally be found to be cock-sucking. Furthermore,
based on our understanding of verbal insults, it's obvious that the term
cocksucker when applied by a het male to another het male is an
accusation that said foe is no better than, or on an even (implication:
lower) plane with, someone who sucks cocks. How else could it function
as an effective insult? This in turn paints people in general who happen
to suck cocks as being base individuals for their willingness to engage
in same, or at the very least less worthy of respect than your average
heterosexual male. And it probably confuses the hell out of the people
who actually suck cocks if they stop to think about the implications.
Which, no doubt, many of them do.

And if the above doesn't make any sense, I'm sure the Aussies on the
list can sort things out.

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/  dave  /   (opportunistic cock kvetcher)