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How thin the skin? I've noticed stuff like that my whole life. You can't pretend it all away. No matter how much you want it to not exist it will. It moves and changes but the inherent human tendency to take a dig at someone or something you don't like will always be with us. Its the slurs you use personally without thought that you should worry about. Don't think you have never done it.
Currently rewatching Gilmore Girls with my fiancée and we have the same reaction when there's a hint of homophobia or fat jokes in some of the jokes. We usually just give each other a look and roll our eyes but yea, it was just a different time
Now you can laugh about politically correct jokes, like if you have a lamp why do you need shade?
The world is my safe space.
I had a similar reaction to seeing brown face in Ben Hur (1959). The character itself was a positive depiction, so there's that I guess. It could have easily ruined the whole movie.
I'm surprised how many people seem offended by this comic. I found it pretty relatable. That doesn't mean I "don't understand context", or think the writers were bad people, or that the shows aren't worth watching. It just means I find it personally unpleasant to find these jokes in a work I'm otherwise enjoying.
When kids study older literature and media in school, generally when there's a slur or racist reference or joke, the teacher will stop and explain the context and get the kids to reflect on it and why it's probably not acceptable today. Even though I understand this and know it going in, I'm still kind of doing an abridged version of that in my head when something like this comes up in a show -- I've been following along, laughing with the writers, and then suddenly I'm backing up and distancing myself from one joke or idea. It's jarring, it pulls me out of the show, and it's just not fun.
In some cases it also comes across as incredibly lazy and unoriginal. So many sitcoms from that era have "the trans episode", "the gay episode", "the lecherous character" -- and they all make the same unfunny jokes, and it's a reminder than a lot of these shows, even in their time, were just not that creative. Plenty of modern shows have the same problem, but they don't draw attention to it by having large classes of "stock jokes" that simply do not land today.
When kids study older literature and media in school, generally when there's a slur or racist reference or joke, the teacher will stop and explain the context and get the kids to reflect on it and why it's probably not acceptable today.
I still remember how my English teacher gave context on usage of the n-word in Huckleberry Finn and how insightful it was for us at that age.
The one that still gets me, and mostly because in this day and age of 2026 it still doesn't get as much homophobic backlash as I feel it clearly deserves is the pejorative: cocksucker.
In my anecdotal experience, 99.55% of the time, it's leveraged against men and used as a homophobic slur.
But even so, is sucking cock really that terrible of a thing to do? The vast majority of people with a cock enjoy the service. We literally celebrate the people who do it well for us personally, in most cases.
Why is it used as a slur?
Anyway, I'm off to suck some cock, see ya'll later.
99.55%
The specificity of this made me imagine that you had actually taken inventory of every single time you've encountered this in your personal life experience and done the math, lol.
It usually implies that whoever is giving head is being taken advantage of.
i.e. They got swindled by some shitty male into pleasing said male at the cost of their own dignity.
It doesn't happen always, but it happens often enough for the act to be seen as degrading.
I took it to mean that the person referred to is an opportunist of sorts. A man who will perform said act on another man for some kind of benefit, despite being straight or disliking that man.
Motherfucker - Includes (Most) dads of 2 or more kids.
Why two or more?
Do you think people with only one child no longer have sex?
The first time she's not yet a mother
I'm not excluding them.
It's that I can't prove that a 1 child father is a Motherfucker.
2 kids from the same mother? Someone is a Motherfucker.
Hello, 1 child motherfucker here, and I appreciate your reasoning!
Although, since my mind can't help but wander into the what-ifs and edge cases, I bet there is some tiny number of pairings of people who have 2+ biological children together and yet never had sex.
Oh yes. A whole lot of edge cases. Surrogate mothers, step-dads, lesbian and gay parents etc. Lots of people to offend with an off the cuff joke.
I chose to focus on the motherfucking obvious.
There goes my hero, watch him as he goes.
Safe travels, cocksucker!
(Mods, please don't ban me. Please observe the context. Oh my god please jesus don't do it)