[Ammi]

Originally Posted by lostalex

I think there are boundries when you are making fun of something that you are not a part of. For instance, I may make fun of my own family, but if someone else makes fun of my family, even if they are making fun of them for the same things i've made fun of them for, it's not the same thing. It's offensive. I can say whatever i like about my brother or my mom or my dad, but if someone else makes fun of them, I get very defensive.

The same is true for race or sexual orientation.

Like if you are a child of an immigrant family, maybe your parents have an accent, and you make jokes about your mom's accent. If someone else made fun of your moms accent it would be very different.Is it a double standard? yes. But you can understand why. It's just how humans are.

..I don't think that's double standards though because they would be directing that 'joke' at your mum or someone personally and people can only really do that when they are familiar with that person and know they will take it in humour..for me it would only be double standards if someone was generally joking about say a specific accent which you happened to have and you took offence to that, yet maybe you would joke about something else that you found amusing, I don't know, that could be anything couldn't it...so then it becomes this thing about whether anything should be joked about because it will always offend someone..so would it just be best to never joke...but then there would be no balance to all the horrible/tragic/unfortunate things that happen in life, both to individuals and the world in general....