Have you never watched TV and movies?! Only a man can carve a Thanksgiving turkey. Had they not specified middle aged men, I might have thought about a young woman cutting a turkey, and that would be such a ridiculous concept that I would have TOTALLY missed the directors cut punchline! No, no, the joke is FAR more effective when it reinforces a stereotype that pretty much only exists in fiction.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Why would they need to be male and/or middle aged? Couldn’t anyone who is a director and carving a turkey make this dumb joke?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
hilliard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dissecting a frog
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The real meat of the joke is on the inside?
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 months ago
I think dad-jokes are by their nature unfortunately limited to the group I have described. Every other kind of person makes them, they’re just common bad jokes.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am going to have to disagree with you there. Dad jokes is an entire genre of jokes in and of itself. It transcends age and gender; it’s all about the attitude.
Check out Mom’s Dad Jokes on Instagram to see what I mean.
Also, my 10-year-old son loves telling dad jokes. He hates when I tell dad jokes, but he loves telling them.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 months ago
Such is the inherent duality of the dad-joke.
Seems to require an account, but anyway, I get the idea. Well, whatever works in your headspace is good, I guess, right?
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I see people asking why male + middle aged is relevant. I don’t see anyone furiously angry.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 months ago
Ugh, this is so tiring, but we are going to fight this one out. Fine then, substitute it by “bikeshedding”. It’s not the exact right meaning, I know, but it’s just the same energy as someone bringing a cake and that one person just NEEDS to point out that they can’t eat it because of gluten, and how dangerous gluten is and how ignorant it is to bake stuff using gluten and the bees for the honey, WHAT, THERE IS NO HONEY, THERE IS INDUSTRIAL SUGAR IN IT?
It’s all things we can talk about and maybe they are even valid and sorry, yes, next time I can use corn flour and see if that works, but I can’t lose the feeling that’s not what the purpose of that piping up was.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is hardly bikeshedding.
I wonder if male, middle-aged dogs dream? Do male, middle-aged postal workers deliver their own mail? Question for male, middle-aged linguists:…
It’s human nature to wonder why, in a one-sentence post title, you included some details that don’t seem relevant.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are dad jokes, not bad jokes!