Fisking a Joke! A blogging first? Perhaps...
Cathy, of Cathy in the Wright, posted a pretty lame 'adult' joke the other day. It was near violent, with all it's finger waging and pointing, yelling and demanding. And emasculating.
I shall fisk it:
Adult Joke - Not For My Nephews
The husband had just finished reading a new book, 'YOU CAN BE THE MAN OF YOUR HOUSE'.
At least the husband character is allowed the ability to read! But he's emasculated from the beginning by having to read a book that gives him permission to be a man.
He stormed into the kitchen and walked directly up to his wife.
She was in the kitchen? Well, that's refreshing! A woman in the kitchen.
Pointing a finger in her face, he said sternly, "From now on, YOU need to know that I AM the MAN of this house, and my word is law! You will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, and when I'm finished eating my meal, you will serve me a sumptuous dessert afterward. Then, after dinner, you are going to go upstairs with me, and we will have the sex that I want. After that, you are going to draw me my bath so I can relax. You will wash my back and towel me dry and bring me my robe. Then you will massage my feet and hands. Then after that's done, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?"
Once again, the male is played out as the bumbling, sex obsessed idiot. And with his demand for dessert, it's implied he's fat! Does every man have to be portrayed as Jim Belushi? You know he's going to get slammed!
His wife replied, "The f*ckin funeral director would be my guess."
See! The woman was made out to be a dominating, err, well, you know. And the 'punch-line'? You could see it a mile away.
No, no, no. A joke like this needs to be subtle. The punch-line needs to catch you by suprise, like a ninja, not pound you like a sumo. Like this one:
After the husband carried his new bride across the threashold, he gently placed her on the bed, took off his pant and tossed them to her.
"Put these on." He said.
"I can't put these on." she said, "They don't fit!"
"That's right! Now you remember who wears the pants in this family"
She thought for a second, then shimied her panties off and tossed them to him. "Put those on."
"What? They're to small!" he said, "I'll never get into them."
"That's right! And you won't get into them until you change your additude!"
Humor
I shall fisk it:
Adult Joke - Not For My Nephews
The husband had just finished reading a new book, 'YOU CAN BE THE MAN OF YOUR HOUSE'.
At least the husband character is allowed the ability to read! But he's emasculated from the beginning by having to read a book that gives him permission to be a man.
He stormed into the kitchen and walked directly up to his wife.
She was in the kitchen? Well, that's refreshing! A woman in the kitchen.
Pointing a finger in her face, he said sternly, "From now on, YOU need to know that I AM the MAN of this house, and my word is law! You will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, and when I'm finished eating my meal, you will serve me a sumptuous dessert afterward. Then, after dinner, you are going to go upstairs with me, and we will have the sex that I want. After that, you are going to draw me my bath so I can relax. You will wash my back and towel me dry and bring me my robe. Then you will massage my feet and hands. Then after that's done, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?"
Once again, the male is played out as the bumbling, sex obsessed idiot. And with his demand for dessert, it's implied he's fat! Does every man have to be portrayed as Jim Belushi? You know he's going to get slammed!
His wife replied, "The f*ckin funeral director would be my guess."
See! The woman was made out to be a dominating, err, well, you know. And the 'punch-line'? You could see it a mile away.
No, no, no. A joke like this needs to be subtle. The punch-line needs to catch you by suprise, like a ninja, not pound you like a sumo. Like this one:
After the husband carried his new bride across the threashold, he gently placed her on the bed, took off his pant and tossed them to her.
"Put these on." He said.
"I can't put these on." she said, "They don't fit!"
"That's right! Now you remember who wears the pants in this family"
She thought for a second, then shimied her panties off and tossed them to him. "Put those on."
"What? They're to small!" he said, "I'll never get into them."
"That's right! And you won't get into them until you change your additude!"
Humor
Posted by Surly Dave on
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Even more embarrassing is that I came away from one such conference thinking "wow, the speaker treats his wife that way and she hasn't divorced him?" I don't wish divorce on anyone (my parents went through it), but Christians really ought to think a bit more deeply about how they treat the first institution created by God.
Sorry to distract from your point about humor, Surly, but much of this kind of humor makes me sick to the stomach.
Even so, wouldn't it be great to see a case where such a joke was told, and the hearers responded not with knowing laughter, but with a blank stare? Or perhaps "people think like that?" Or "that's not what I was thinking about when my honeymoon began!"
And I admit that I'm pretty lucky. When we married, my wife didn't even know who the NOW/NAG was. (sorry, her sisters are taken)