| Date sent: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:24:24 EST Subject: Re: HUMOR: Christmas Songs for the Psychiatrically Challenged To: vocalist Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Dear List:
Sorry if I offended anyone. I posted those "Christmas Carols" because I thought they were amusing. I thought that anyone who has experienced feelings of paranoia, or depression, etc. (and who has not?) would enjoy them too. But then again, I'm a blonde who is not offended by dumb blonde jokes, and my best friend (who is blind since birth) enjoys blind jokes.
To my way of thinking, today's culture of political correctness encourages an oversensitivity to imagined slights and insults. There is a very significant difference between poking fun at human frailties in general and mocking an individual. Almost all of humor is based on our ability to face our weaknesses--whether they be physical, emotional, intellectual, economic, social, age-related, whatever--and laugh at them.
I'm not saying that the "Christmas Carols for the Psychiatrically Challenged" is great art, but if you feel that all humor based on weaknesses or handicaps should be censored, you'd be doing away with more than a few masterpieces. For example, Don Quixote is delusional. Don Basilio stutters. Should we not laugh at them?
We're all less than perfect, and it's too easy to take ourselves--and our problems--too seriously. I prefer to laugh!
Judy politically incorrect as usual
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