Date sent: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:24:24 EST
Subject: Re: HUMOR: Christmas Songs for the Psychiatrically Challenged
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Dear List:

Sorry if I offended anyone. I posted those "Christmas Carols" because I
thought they were amusing. I thought that anyone who has experienced feelings
of paranoia, or depression, etc. (and who has not?) would enjoy them too. But
then again, I'm a blonde who is not offended by dumb blonde jokes, and my
best friend (who is blind since birth) enjoys blind jokes.

To my way of thinking, today's culture of political correctness encourages an
oversensitivity to imagined slights and insults. There is a very significant
difference between poking fun at human frailties in general and mocking an
individual. Almost all of humor is based on our ability to face our
weaknesses--whether they be physical, emotional, intellectual, economic,
social, age-related, whatever--and laugh at them.

I'm not saying that the "Christmas Carols for the Psychiatrically Challenged"
is great art, but if you feel that all humor based on weaknesses or handicaps
should be censored, you'd be doing away with more than a few masterpieces.
For example, Don Quixote is delusional. Don Basilio stutters. Should we not
laugh at them?

We're all less than perfect, and it's too easy to take ourselves--and our
problems--too seriously. I prefer to laugh!

Judy
politically incorrect as usual