susanr Colorado
06/03/18 4:29 pm
I don’t find it particularly funny, but I really don’t see how it’s offensive, either. (I skimmed the linked article but didn’t read it closely so I may have missed something.) I noted the groups who might have found it offensive and I didn’t really get why they would - since the article really wasn’t picking on anyone whose relative *did* die; only on those who might have made up a death as an excuse to skip an early class.
And I think I’m pretty sensitive to “jokes” that are distinctly un-funny; more so than most. I bristle pretty often here at negative comments about people not being able to take a “joke” (about something that ought to be humorless to everyone, in my opinion) and have been called names here for my reactions.
(I’m also recalling all the miserably cold walks down a street in Evanston IL to my 8 AM physics class in 1965 with a professor who wasn’t a very good teacher but whose course was integral to the program I was in. Ugh.)
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