Woman Unpacks Joke For How It Disguises Misogyny As Humor

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November 10, 2021, 7:08 am

Comedy is becoming a very divided world. We all like to laugh, but it seems like more and more people can only laugh when something horrible is being said about other people. And that’s kind of become a whole identity online, where it’s even worse because these “jokes” can be made anonymously.

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Online feminist @emrazz found one of these jokes and decided to use it as an example of an ongoing issue in the comedy world.

“I want to talk about how misogyny is often framed as edgy jokes. I want to talk about how this guy is comparing battered women to dogs in an animal shelter and mocking how traumatized and easy to manipulate they are as a result. I want to talk about why men think this is funny,” she wrote.

I want to talk about how misogyny is often framed as edgy jokes. I want to talk about how this guy is comparing battered women to dogs in an animal shelter and mocking how traumatized and easy to manipulate they are as a result. I want to talk about why men think this is funny. pic.twitter.com/yfwCMIVSz9

— feminist next door (@emrazz) November 6, 2021

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The joke she shared was from an account called @TallBart that seems to make a lot of “jokes.” This one in particular is extremely gross. It compares women in a domestic violence shelter to dogs in a dog shelter. If you don’t get how that is messed up, then you have a lot in common with the people in comments, who @emrazz also screenshot a lot of.

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And she noted that a lot of them either completely love the comparison, or are afraid to say outright that it’s messed up.

“I want to talk about how the internet is foaming at the mouth for this kind of content,” she said. “How men dive into the replies to participate like starving sharks diving onto a steak.”

She went on to say that the “old boys club” everyone talks about is actually alive and well amongst the very young.

I want to talk about how tossing out lazy, bottom of the barrel, vitriolic misogyny online is always done in the key of “king willing to say what we’re all thinking,” and that it’s a common part of the discourse among young men, and especially among progressive or leftist men. pic.twitter.com/udu4jBiV8K

— feminist next door (@emrazz) November 6, 2021

I want to talk about why we call it the old boys club when it’s very clearly alive and well among the young. I want to talk about how people say there’s less misogyny, when what they mean is that it’s slightly less institutional, but twice as insidious. They hate us, but funnier.

— feminist next door (@emrazz) November 6, 2021

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It’s worth noting that in the day since I posted the original tweet, it’s gained 500 more likes, because this isn’t just some dark corner of the internet. It’s literally just your average dude who thinks dehumanizing women is fucking hilarious. It’s you who are broken, not us. pic.twitter.com/GvK8x9b17M

— feminist next door (@emrazz) November 7, 2021

And you wonder why we don’t trust you.

— feminist next door (@emrazz) November 7, 2021

I don’t think anyone replying to the domestic violence shelter “joke” cares much about winning over the trust of women.

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*First Published: November 10, 2021, 7:08 am