sensualmagirl
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Joined: 7/4/2006 From: Boston, MA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: FemmeOwner It's a JOKE. do you get this upset at blonde jokes? Polish jokes? In Egypt they tell sa'iidi jokes. In Riyadh they tell Yemeni jokes. In Morocco, they tell "farmer" jokes... and sometimes we will say to each other "what are you, a farmer?" now, some farmers in the US might take offense, but, they don't know the context from where it came (a Moroccan joke... equivalent to a "redneck" joke). Which reminded me of something, I told my vanilla partner (the Moroccan -- now US citizen) this tag line, thought he'd find it funny, he didn't even get it! So, sometmes humor can be misunderstood, it's going to happen... Once I explained it, he thought it was funny, because it was in reference to the loud and obnoxious Christians we hear so much about and are confronted with daily in the news... these so called "bad apples" and not blasting the whole faith... the ones who take Jesus' name and smear it by their acts, deads and words. (Like a former friend of mine who "used to be" a lesbian and is now a preaching born-again, narrow-minded bigot so called "Christian" -- uggh!) Well, besides, we have a sense of humor, he wouldn't have been offended if it said "Jesus, save me from Moroccans" and I wouldn't find it offensive if it said "Jesus, save me from Bostonians" -- Just my thoughts. P.S. Jesus, please protect me from your loud followers, fundamentalists of all religions, narrow-minded bigots of all races and creeds, and humor-less people around the world. out. smg
< Message edited by sensualmagirl -- 2/10/2007 9:53:31 AM >
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