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- 18 days
After hitting up the wiki/reading the comments, I still don’t get the joke/issue. What am I looking at here?
There is no joke, its that my friend wasnt sure who Rosa Parks was and what Only Fans is. I can forgive not knowing what Only Fans is, but everyone should know who Rosa Parks is.
- moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Maybe he’s just not confident in his own knowledge, and the context of talking about an OnlyFans convinced him that he’d misremembered the name.
- SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish18 days
Or he’s using the gray-rock technique to confront pretty blatant misogyny.
- SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish17 days
Well, would this joke have worked as Malcolm X’s Only Fans? Would anybody have bothered to message a friend to share that Warpigs username? There’s no connection to what Parks is known for, no parody or subversion of expectations, other than the transgression of presenting a respected, famous person as a low-status sex worker. And it only works for a woman.
(OTOH, Henry Kissinger’s Only Fans might work based on the incongruity of anybody thinking of such a ghoul in a sexual context.)
- 17 days
Oh i see what you mean. Although i think there are some male historical figures that a similar joke might work for:
- Abraham Lincoln’s only fans
- Julius Caesar’s only fans
- Socrates’s only fans
- Mahatma Gandhi’s only fans
- 18 days
- They knew who she is. they just clarified to avoid confusion.
- We associate things by contexts. If you were talking about history or civil rights, your mate would most likely have confidently known who Rosa Parks is.
- https://xkcd.com/1053/
- When confronted or put under pressure we tend to question everything. You think the name is funny. He doesn’t. So obviousltly his understanding must be wrong. Its not “civil rights” + “porn”, there must be something else he is missing. It can’t be the obvious thing he is thinking about because that isn’t funny …
The civil rights movement, segregation, Rosa Parks are all things that are often taught on the UK school curriculum, well they used to be, not sure about the last 25 years. A 40 year old person who has even a modicum of historical intelligence should know who Rosa Parks is (and by extension) everyone should really. There shouldn’t be any questioning it. Also, if someone was unsure I’m certain 5 seconds searching it would help them.
There are some things people SHOULD absolutely know. To not is just ignorance and in this case, part of the problem. Its like we are giving excuses to people for lack of knowledge. Sorry, that may seem harsh, but its the way I feel.
- 17 days
Not a lack of knowledge mate, your friend was giving you the benefit of a doubt that you didn’t find “Rosa Park’s OnlyFans” so funny that you messaged him about it. As you’ve said, she’s a civil rights icon, so it’s pretty reductive to make a porn joke about her, especially when that… doesn’t really riff off anything specific about her. If it was at least a joke about “Harriet Tubman getting railed” (which would still be in poor taste) or something, you could call it dark humour, but the joke you shared is essentially “hehe girl nekkid” targeted at Rosa Parks. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the person who had that username was a racist and being dismissive of Rosa Parks intentionally. Probably not, I know how multiplayer lobbies can be, but it’s not a good look regardless.
He clearly knew who she was, he told you when he asked for clarification, and the timestamps suggest he didn’t have to look it up either. To be overly blunt, you don’t look the brightest that you’re so confident he’s an idiot for giving you the benefit of a doubt, when if you’d given him the benefit of a doubt, you wouldn’t be publicly embarrassing yourself trying to shame your friend. I’d assume that’s the cause of nearly every downvote you’ve received on this post.
- 17 days
And this “Only Fans” you speak of, Naked pictures of people on the internet? Fascinating. mf doth protest too much.
- 18 days
Most people are self-centered (which makes sense… to a point), & often don’t much care about things that don’t directly affect them - it’s just the degree to which they are like this that varies. Now you know just how bad your “mate” is in that regard.
- 18 days
Not understanding a joke and not being sure about only fans are not traits i would describe as self centered. Sex jokes about historical figures may be funny if your are into that humour but if you have never encountered it yet they are quite strange.
- 18 days
Like this one:
You’re just about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller
It’s all about the Pentiums!
…
- 18 days
Not talking about the joke. I’m talking about not knowing about one of the most well-known names in equal rights history - especially when it happened (and therefore her likely current status). Presumably because they don’t care since it doesn’t currently affect them personally.
- 18 days
They knew who she is, they literally asked because they thought it can’t be true, read the second reply
- 18 days
So if I’m a history buff and a nice person, I have to laugh at “Rosa Parks’ OnlyFans” because hah she totally suck dicks? Or what? I still don’t get the joke, it’s just that bad.
- 18 days
I don’t disagree. I’m referring to not knowing about Rosa Parks - over of the most well-known figures in the history of equal rights, and it sounds like they’ve barely heard of her, let alone when. Can’t be bothered learning about things that don’t currently directly affect their life, apparently.
