Please don't consider this post as an "argument" in the street sense. I state what i state, respectfully.
If management were to reopen a joke thread, I will abide by the house rules whatever they may be . . . and without complaint.
That said . . .
One may open up a news virtual page at work and see a photo of of a person with a black eye. Anyone who is triggered by a depiction of violence, cannot read the newspaper, look at the New York Times or the Washington post or the BBC online . . . and certainly one cannot watch either conventional network TV or anything beyond a children's show on Netflix or Amazon Prime, et al.
Looking at a photo that depicts violence does not normalize violence. Hopefully, it may have an opposite effect. What such a photo (without context) does do is to reflect
real life, something we must all learn how to handle to live a healthy and productive life.
Apart from the above, the joke was very funny.
😉
~ Joe
Edit: I've edited this post a couple of times as I reflect further and struggle to get the nuance right, but perhaps I ought not to have said anything at all? I did not intend to offend anyone.
Just now, it occurred to me that, if the photo used in the joke above were of a a woman with a black eye or anyone else that society has historically considered more vulnerable than
everyman, it would have offended nearly everyone and it would not be funny at all.
The times they are a changin'
