• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        121·
        13 hours ago

        His older work stands up mostly, but lately he has thrown in with the wave of “anti-woke” comedians, repeatedly doubling down when criticised for making transphobic remarks.

        A comedian these days has a very difficult choice to make, it must be said. I fully admit it! They have to do a lot of emotional and mental labour to make light of the very dark times we live in, or they can just side with far-right billionaires and culture war reactionaries and just make easy punch-down jokes about people who already face incredible violence. It’s got to be so hard!

        • manualoverride@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 hours ago

          I’ve had a look at this and if you replace trans with any other protected group the jokes are objectively satire and clearly meant to be comedy and not transphobic. There is no part of me who is in any way anti-trans, I couldn’t care less what gender you are now or used to be. In this case I think some people just don’t want to be the subject of jokes no matter how innocent the intentions.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
            4·
            7 hours ago

            I really don’t care to litigate anyone’s comedy, it’s the reaction that damned him. The simple truth is that if someone doesn’t like your joke, they’re right.

            Nobody has ever seriously defended or explained a joke so well that it eventually became funny, and every professional comedian knows it. You either spin it into a different bit or apologise and move on. You’ve got to be a real prick to be that rich, privileged, safe, and still think you have to defend a joke that hurt someone’s feelings. “Sorry that one sucked, no hate.” How hard is that?

            If a veteran comedian like him chooses to get serious and defend a joke, that tells me they weren’t joking or they have a different motive than mere entertainment. Trust is built slowly, quickly lost. Especially among persecuted groups.

      • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
        21·
        13 hours ago

        He holds some disagreeable opinions and has probably done at least several things wrong.

  • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    I like that people like dogs - they deserve a good home and loving owner - but they make me nervous. I was almost attacked by a dog on the street as a kid, and my dad had to take the bite instead to save me. 2 other kids in my family have been bitten by dogs as well, both times by dogs they had spent a significant amount of time with, but that suddenly got triggered by something out of the blue and attacked. I just can’t trust that they’ll always be friendly, and even one second of aggression is enough to cause some real damage.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      We have a standard poodle. He’s being trained as a service dog, but he’s not there yet.

      He’s getting better, but when he first arrived, he would bark like a maniac anytime someone new entered the house.

      We had a painter come in to do some work in our bathroom. He got upset when he heard Leo start barking because he had a traumatic experience with a dog.

      Then he saw Leo was a poodle and he was suddenly ok.

      I know Leo is all talk, but he’s still a dog. Under all that fluff, he’s basically a Doberman Pinscher.

  • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
    32·
    14 hours ago

    I like dogs, I just don’t like owning dogs. I don’t want to have to be personally involved every time my pet needs to use the bathroom. And dog doors aren’t an option because our cats aren’t allowed outside, and are smarter than our dogs.

    • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
      2·
      33 minutes ago

      And you are the right type of non dog owner. You understand the responsibility in owning a dog and say “nope, haven’t got time for that”. I know plenty of dog owners that really should have said the same thing.

    • RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      9 hours ago

      I like cats, I just don’t like owning cats. I don’t want to have to be personally involved in scooping shit out of a box, that I keep inside of my house, that stinks up the place to the point that I forget about it till I have guests over that can very clearly smell it. And cat doors aren’t an option because they would either runaway or terrorize the local ecosystem or both, and are not always open to love or affection like our dogs.