Puns taketh and giveth.
Just gotta learn to roll with the punches.
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Im not saying I havenât enjoyed the rapier responses to dwarfposter in the thread, I have, but largely because they turn his own comments on him. Many of your jokes did that and nearly cause me to spit out my tea.
But where it involved haha of balding and hairline, it just becomes nasty for the sake of it. Such posters deserve mockery for their views, not stuff they have no choice over. I thought that would be commonsense in an LGBT+ thread.
Now Iâm not saying the state of balding is a protected characteristic because itâs not. Itâs just pretty dumb imo to jab someone or ridicule them for it, rather than leaving it at their views. I went bald at 17-18 and was subjected to all sorts of comments at the time that made me feel very self conscious at a time when I should be blossoming into confidence you know? I donât give a toss anymore, Iâve matured and am at the age where I donât care much of how others judge me. I guess to me though itâs just a more diluted form of ridiculing people for accident of birth, and I see all forms of such behaviour as kind of prattish.
Such idiotic homophobes open themselves up to ridicule by virtue of their views alone. Iâm not saying taking personal jabs makes one as bad as them- not at all, I just find it a tiny bit hypocritical, particularly if the issue being discussed is how itâs wrong to judge people for something thatâs natural. It creates a sense of âyou only deserve this protection if you are allies or friendsâ which runs contrary to what liberal values are about.
TLDR mock people for their 
views till the cows come home. But making fun of them for stuff they canât change either is just a bit of a prat move in my opinion.
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I feel like you struck a nerve with a certain someone now. Itâs pretty obvious that they are just alt-flagging.
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Yeah â I agree. I donât make âmaldingâ jokes etc because, for similar reasons, I donât find it to be particularly funny. I do appreciate that itâs more of a joke about their impotent rage causing the baldness though.
I am very clever and very funny, itâs true.
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I do mostly agree, however, was our dwarf friend not doing that very same thing by reducing our sexualities down to negatives by outright stating that he thinks all homosexuals are inclined towards children?
Respect is a two way street, and our short-sighted short-raced associate drove the wrong direction.
Paxmillian speaks all the truth.
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There is an element of people who talk sh*t should be prepared to get hit. But then, at the same time, it is important to remember that weâre meant to be better and more empathetic than they are.
By doing the same in return you drag yourself down to his level and make yourself no better than he is. Thatâs how this works.
If a guy jumps in with very obvious malicious intentions & views from the stone age, while trying to use âI totally did an adult thing with someone, 100% honestâ as their core excuse for their behaviour, I feel like itâs fully within the rights of the townspeople to laugh them out of town.
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Itâs not about respecting him as a person but to show that you donât see these features as negatives in themselves.
Because thatâs not cool to other people who did nothing wrong.
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Laugh at them by all means. But the second you go down to his level heâs already won.
Speaking of insensitive remarks â I donât think that calling autism an âafflictionâ is particularly appropriate. Iâm going to assume you didnât mean anything malicious by it, but it can certainly read with malicious intent.
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i look at a post using âmaldingâ, an internet meme
i look at a post accusing someone of being a nonce
i conclude these are the exact same because my perch on the fence is too comfortable
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The position not is if youâre taking issue with judging people on something naturally occuring, you engaging in that causes your position to lose integrity. It is entirely possible to demolish such clowns without stooping to their level and being similarly unpleasant.
I understand respect is two way, believe me, but if I can navigate a situation where I maintain my integrity whilst serving someone, Iâll do that. I hardly see it as me kissing their boots in respect, it just means Iâm reserving my righteous rage and disrespect for them for the stuff that doesnât simultaneously make me adopt a hypocritical position.
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Talk sh*t, by all means, but stick to mocking their views. They are ridiculous and mockable enough.
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Pax has the right of it - making fun of someone is good and praxis actually, but when you attack someone over things they canât control you put anyone watching who shares those things in the firing line.
Itâs like when people make fun of the idea of Trump being in a relationship with Putin - you are giving ammunition to the idea that someone being gay is something that can be the target of mockery, even when using it to try and make a homophobe feel uncomfortable.
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True. Although in this case I think most people show more empathy towards those annoying flitty moths that get into their room and swarm around the lightbulb than our dwarven comrade displayed in the forums, but:
These are both valid points that I donât have any real rebuttal to. I guess itâs better to aim with a sniper than a shotgun when it comes to firing back.
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A person like that can never win honestly. If their game-plan to score âvictoryâ involves publically embarassing themselves on such a level theyâve already lost.
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