I think my unpopular opinion is probably relevant to thissubas well, what do you think?

goodmod · 2020-04-13T21:19:38+00:00

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ZEGEZOT · 2020-04-13T15:49:03+00:00

dat be true doh.

user9460 · 2020-04-13T17:06:56+00:00

Not an MRA, just visiting

But historically, your interpretation is demonstrably incorrect. Dark humour / Black comedy is a way for people to explore taboo and morbid subjects of society through humour and its literally everywhere, at all times, and it's not being demonized as a genre at all. Literally no genre of comedy is even remotely under attack.

George Carlin was arrested for his Blue Comedy set the seven words you can't say on television in the 70s. That is an attack.

There is bizarre expectation among people that just the act of being comedy is what makes somethings immune to criticism or rejection. You will always have a segment of a population who see something blue or black and object with a gasp. However in actuality, subversive black humour is the least likely thing to get you vilified.

The joke most likely to get you vilified is un-subversive black humour, because you have removed the irony which was what was allowing you to approach these subjects without presenting with malice or lack of self-awareness.

"I woke up in the night and I saw my T.V floating and I shouted drop it N-"

This delivered straight without subversion or irony is boomer tier humour, and is most often what most people mean by their "edgy humour" or what they actually mean by "edgy humour" is humour without narrative irony. Narrative irony is irony known to the audience, but not inherently present in the narrative.

In comedy narrative irony can be anything from putting on a mocking tone of voice, to the content of previous jokes, to what race the performer is, to where they are from, their gender, weight, what city they are in, basically anything outside the narrative of the joke which demonstrates a subversion of expectation.

Without that narrative irony these kinds of jokes played this way have another name... earnest insults. Dark humour inherently covers topics covered in malice, and if you remove the context of irony... you are just left with that malice again.

You can laugh at insults, but unless you are really fucking good at your job, they are still earnest insults and you likely insulting real living people who can respond in kind.

If you are telling a "dark joke" and it has no narrative irony or subversion to it, you are just saying insulting shit you think is funny for like minded friends to laugh at and now the question is much easier to answer "Why are people mad at me for ~~dark humour~~ insulting them and laughing about it, it's just a joke!."

Title	I think my unpopular opinion is probably relevant to thissubas well, what do you think?
Author	whosthatcreep
Upvotes	12
Comments	6
Date	April 13, 2020 3:45 PM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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