Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom?
datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 months agoI feel like most people who would do this (males trying to seem “alpha”) probably wouldn’t be comfortable saying that, for whatever reason.
classic@fedia.io 2 months ago
The whatever reason bring that they'd have played themselves because homophobia.
I imagine the potency of yo mama jokes that focus on banging her, as opposed to accentuating how ugly she is, comes from the discomfort of sexualizing someone that you want to not have sexualized given your intimacy with her. Reframing your mom as a sexual being rewrites the experience of affection with her, for example.
The ugliness piece devalues someone precious to you.
I also thinks it's just a rules of the game that people decide on and then forget. Participating in a game about who will gets upset, everyone implicitly agrees that this is something they can fall prey to having a reaction about. Sort of social game theory
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I dont think the kind of person who torments you with constant motherly disrespect in school would he fazed by the suggestion that they are homophobic since they only target your mother. That’s not a good gotcha at all, at best they would laugh and agree with you.
classic@fedia.io 2 months ago
That bit was regarding why they wouldn't do the same thing regarding one's father
Personally I think it'd be a power move to say I fucked you're dad
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I understand, but the type of teenager who makes so many your mom jokes at your expense you feel compelled to ask if they are homophobic for only targeting your mom and not your dad, would just say “yes 😎”.
People with enough self irony to take the implication in jest wouldnt have been so obnoxious with the yo mama jokes in the first place.