[Implying that gays invented irony and "air quotes"]
“The gay sensibility,” one speaker informed the audience, is ironic and characterized by the excessively performative use of “air quotes.” Indeed, irony itself is a gay invention, a coping mechanism for gay people who recognize that they don’t really fit in with normal society.
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It's been argued that Shakespeare is gay(homoerotic themes in some of his poetry).
Irony was invented by Oscar Wilde after a week long binge of anal sex and opium. Everybody knows that.
I thought it was a coping mechanism for smart people realising they didn't fit in with the great morass of stupidity that is public opinion.
Wait, gay people invented irony?
That's it! God is gay!
*begins singing "Dear Lord, What on Earth is my Hairdo All About?"*
Yep responsible for the existence of irony over here, I'll take that one
Can I also lay claim to sarcasm understatement cynicism and wit via sexuality or do I have to stick with nationality for them?
Alanis Morissette is gay?
She did invent a new form of irony... characterized by not being ironic at all, but still...
so uh, Irony is gay, understatement would be..I dunno..Liberal? and hyperbole conservative. Sarcasm would be for misfits, witticism for womanisers...
Jeez, it gets just a lil bit "clearer" when you try and arrange it so that one sense of humour for one type of people, doesnt it? I mean, there's not that many social cliques, and there's like forty different schools of humour...
((okay, I'm done. Probably didnt hit it right, but heck. It'll make more sense than what the revealer said))
Then, ladies and gentlemen, I must be very, VERY gay. Don't use 'air quotes' all that much though, they are overrated. Anyways, how come absolutely everything is either satanic, gay or 'terorist-like' to a fundie?
Humor is mostly a "coping mechanism". It's hard to use irony in humor as most the people miss the irony and those that get it usually don't think it's funny.
If this guys a closet case it's irony. See, not funny
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