Reply #52: there was no pun [View All]

[iverglas]

Lord knows what you think a pun is ...

There was a one hundred percent inappropriate comment making light of someone's distress, purporting to derive humour from their distress and the sexist reaction alleged to have occurred to it by offering a further sexist reaction to it.

How about ignore them and focus on the "rescuers'" actions instead.

I would have thought that very appropriate advice ... had it been directed to the person who made the remark in the first place.

Had the person who made the remark in the first place given some indication in follow up that s/he was disgusted by the alleged incident, rather than saying

It is NOLA "evil grin"

which, unfortunately, indicates nothing but a willingness to exploit someone else's distress as an opportunity for sexist humour, it might have passed as gallows humour. As it stands, it was just crude, unwarranted and inappropriate.

And addressing snotty sarcastic lectures at someone who objected to it doesn't strike me as appropriate either.