How Many Feminists Does It Take To Make A Joke? Sexist Humor and What's Wrong With It

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ID5800869
AutoresMemo Bergmann (autor correspondente)
Ano1986
Volume1
Fascículo1
Páginas63-82
Data de publicação1986-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHypatia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00522.x
OpenAlexW1988725633
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas5

In this paper I am concerned with two questions: What is sexist humor? and what is wrong with it? To answer the first question, I briefly develop a theory of humor and then characterize sexist humor as humor in which sexist beliefs (attitudes/norms) are presupposed and are necessary to the fun. Concerning the second question, I criticize a common sort of argument that is supposed to explain why sexist humor is offensive: although the argument explains why sexist humor feels offensive, it does not place responsibility for the offense in the humorist or audience that enjoys sexist humor. I develop an alternate account of the offense in sexist humor that places responsibility for offense in precisely those quarters

Argument (complex analysis · Humor research · Joke · Offensive · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Humor Studies and Applications · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education