When a just society arrives, will it be an end to humor?

[LAS14]

Last edited Sat Aug 3, 2019, 07:18 PM - Edit history (1)

My hubby and I frequently (more frequently as the years go on) laugh at ourselves for being "stupid." But is this not denigrating people who are not smart? Once when I said to myself, Oh, how stupid!, my granddaughters, who were attending a Friends school told me that "stupid" was a bad word.

What are examples of humor that aren't based on mockery of human foibles that might, in fact, be legitimate disabilities?

EDIT: After reading some responses I'd like to refine the question. What will happen to self-deprecating humor about doing "stupid" (for us) things, or awkward things. Will that go away as we become more aware of disabilities? I'd like to think there's a middle way, so we can keep laughing at ourselves. Laughter is the best medicine, especially as we face declining abilities.

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[ismnotwasm]

1. There is a school of thought that all humor

Is based on cruelty. I disagree

[meadowlander]

2. We'll always have fart jokes.

[rzemanfl]

3. Those are but one letter away from.... n/t

[LAS14]

5. I can't figure this out. What's the letter? nt

[rzemanfl]

12. Think shaming. n/t

[ProudLib72]

9. FARM

Now let's tell some Aggie jokes!

[abqtommy]

4. There'll always be huma

in Yuma. Besides, huma isn't funny, it cuts like a knife!

[irisblue]

6. No. 6 yr old neighbor told me this , then he fell over, funniest thing he'd ever heard

" How come you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish?"

Yeah.

Puns will endure.

[Baltimike]

13. My 4 yr old (now fully grown) niece asked me if we're not supposed to eat animals

why do they have meat in them?

She was too young to know...

[mercuryblues]

7. Your grandkids are being taught

that calling others stupid is a bad word. That's a good thing.

[keithbvadu2]

8. All (most) humor is based on life.

All (most) humor is based on life.

When it is our own life, it may take 20 or 30 years for us to see the humor in it.

[ProudLib72]

10. Jokes only involving animals?

[hunter]

11. The schools my children and their cousins went to were much nicer than those I suffered.

The young people in my family have always been able to make me laugh without being mean.

Anti-bullying campaigns seem to be effective.

[LAS14]

14. I've refined my question.

EDIT: After reading some responses I'd like to refine the question. What will happen to self-deprecating humor about doing "stupid" (for us) things, or awkward things. Will that go away as we become more aware of disabilities? I'd like to think there's a middle way, so we can keep laughing at ourselves. Laughter is the best medicine, especially as we face declining abilities.