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13345434, Bottom line is his trans jokes weren’t funny enough...
Posted by lightworks, Thu Aug-29-19 12:20 PM
...to outweigh how offensive they were.

I said earlier to someone Seinfield said in an interview that when you have an offensive joke you gotta weight how funny the joke is versus offensiveness and if it isn’t funny enough to outweigh offensiveness you shouldn’t do it.

Basically Dave’s jokes on trans folks aren’t funny enough to outweigh how offensive they are.

Also now that I’m thinking about it I found a lot of his justifications silly.

The punchline that Kevin would have to but the dollhouse for his son to break it over his head was dumb once you realize he has a son and daughter...

Also saying Louis masterbating wasn’t a big deal because he wasn’t hurting anyone completely removed the power dynamic...if he had found a joke that touched on that I guess it would have been possibly funny, but as is just sounds like he’s trying to defend his friend poorly.