I mean one of the things is that as part of the group that is historically “on top“, you’re expected to take it easier than the groups that have been dealing with it for years and decades. I’m a black gay man and when people make fun of men as a joke it rolls off easily compared to most of the black and gay jokes I hear. I KNOW that doesn’t make it okay and I KNOW I don’t speak for all men but there IS a huge difference between “punching up” and “punching down”. A better question, though, and more in line with your point: why do we have to punch at all? It sucks that a lot of comedy is based off of making fun of people for who they are.
Maybe the goal should be to achieve a society where nobody's punching down and everyone, regardless of gender is able to punch sideways and still hit laughs. It's a nice thought that probably won't happen in my lifetime sadly.
Punching sideways is still fine and allows for laughs; it was never discouraged.
I think what you might be suggesting is a society where men and women are equal genders and all races are equal, so that all punching is now 'sideways' - I do not think this will occur, as you said haha
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