Poll: Is it okay to make straight jokes?

[Kpt._Rob]

But... that wasn't a "straight" joke. A straight joke would be a joke that derived humor from people being straight. Your joke derived humor from the fact that your two friends were not straight. It was a gay joke that didn't use the word gay.

Any time you make a joke, whether it's appropriate or not tends to depend on the context (although there are some jokes which probably ought not be told in any context). In this case, your joke was inappropriate because you were using the fact that two of your friends were gay as fodder for humor. If there were such a thing as a "straight" joke, its appropriateness would depend on the joke and the situation in which you told it.

 

[rekabdarb]

is it ok to make gay jokes? If so, then yes it is ok to make straight jokes.

If not, then you are an ignorant person who is offended by the simplest words.

Remember, it's the way you say the word, not the word itself.

EDIT: I mean i tell gay jokes to my gay brother all the time. He doesn't mind (as long as i don't say fag/******... that's the only word that offends him regardless)

 

[WolfEdge]

I have to be honest... I have never heard a straight joke.

I was just gonna say... Have you heard the one where a guy puts his penis...

(wait for it...)

INTO A VAGINA?!

http://instantrimshot.com/

 

[Light 086]

You know your friends more than we do. So you should know how they will react.

In my opinion jokes are fair game, so long as you take as good as you give. Don't go cracking jokes at someone then throw a fit when they get you back.

As written on my friend's hat: 'If you can't take a joke, fuck off'

 

[Feline Jaye]

I went with jokes, but this is coming from the girl that mad her mildly intolerent guy-friend laugh with a get-back-in-the-kitchen type of joke.

I say laugh at everything, so yeah.

But I would totally make 'heterosexual jokes' if I could ever think of them at the appropriate time.

 

[Prof.draco]

http://instantrimshot.com/
That link deserves an award of some kind.

And I love making straight jokes, mainly to piss of my friends though...

 

[SangRahl]

Living in a society in which heterosexuality is seen as the norm, and everything else as lesser deviations from it, I'm not sure exactly how you could make an offensive joke about heterosexuality.

I think the point is that perhaps he's starting to percieve the world in such a way that your preconception ISN'T the rule.

OT: Personally, I'd have taken pause before making the same joke. People's perceptions of others can be very easily clouded. For two people NOT of a hetero nature, being seen as "closet hetero" may cause them grief in their own interactions with your GURPS-playing friends. Recall 'Biloxi Blues' (circa 1988; Matthew Broderick; actually pretty good, if not considered a "classic"), simply saying something can change people's perception of someone else, whether right or wrong.

Over all, it comes down to your take on the given situation. Always remember that words have meaning (and, no, "MovieBob" Chipman was NOT the first to say that), and can have more impact that originally intended, and not just to your intended audience.

 

[geldonyetich]

I'm with the folks who agree straight jokes are tough to take seriously. The "closet hetero" comment would seem to be more a declaration of how commonplace homosexuality is than anything else. And it would be tongue-in-cheek declaration considering that, even in the city with the highest ratio, it comes out to something like 1/7th of the population [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#United_States_2]. Basically, being straight is being amongst the boring majority, you might well try making a joke about how the sky is blue.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

Just like all jokes, they are fine as long as you know your audience and don't cross any lines.

 

[TheSuperiorXemnas]

I believe that anybody can make fun of anybody OR nobody can make fun of nobody as long as the jokes doesn't go too Extreme. But then again, those are MY beliefs...

 

[Plurralbles]

if you can't joke around with someone about anything, then you have no business being friends with such tight asses.

 

[LadyRhian]

Sure. Why not? The worst outcome being it falls flatter than a mono-molecular filament.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

On the one hand, I generally don't have a problem with humour if it isn't mean-spirited. Also, I (gay) would have thought it was pretty funny.

On the other hand, this is effectively like walking into a room with a few black people doing something stereotypically white and making some remark about them being "secretly white". I could definitely see people being offended.

Again, I wouldn't be offended, but the people you're worried about are presumably your friends, not me. Also not the Escapist forumgoers. Even if everyone here agrees that they "shouldn't" be offended, how does that help you if they are offended? If you say "well maybe that bothers you, but it shouldn't" you're not going to keep your friends for very long.

 

[Dramatic Flare]

Upon reading the original post I immediately fired up google to help with this. Straight jokes are acceptable, the biggest problem is that because being straight is the statistical norm, fewer straight jokes are around. Sexist jokes are so damn common precisely because the population is relatively even between the two sexes.

To be fair, OP, I think your jokes was actually a gay joke in disguise. It calls out their different nature by shouting "DON'T LOOK THIS WAY," so to speak.
But it was a good line.

Anyway, here are some sample straight jokes.
How is a straight guy like tofu?
Squishy, unattractive and no taste.

What do you get when you cross a straight man and a straight woman?
Three kids, a mistress and two divorce lawyers.

2. Good: Your wife's not talking to you.
Bad: She wants a divorce.
Ugly: She's a lawyer.

3. Good: Your son is finally maturing.
Bad: He's involved with the Woman next door.
Ugly: So are you.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

Is it okay to gay jokes? I don't like making gay jokes so I don't make straight jokes either. It doesn't seem right to do one but then not do the other

 

[Purple Shrimp]

you should have told that joke

 

[white_salad]

Depends who you tell them to. ******.

I found this to be incredibly funny. Well done.

 

[Nieroshai]

Once we can hear any joke, be it about others or about ourselves, we have truly become accepting. The moment our differences bring laughter instead of anger is the moment we are one.
That being said, does anyone know a funny straight joke? I'd really like to hear one, I'm way depressed right now and could use a laugh.

 

[dexxyoto]

Damn those breeders!