It has only been a short time since I last ranted about the double standard nonsense, but after recent events, it's letting me know it's still around. I'm not sure how many of you have this creed in your group of friends, but I know mine do. Anything is funny, and you can be made fun of for anything. That's how it works. Truth be told that there are acceptions, every once in a while, where that attitude has to placed on the shelf. For the most part it teaches us humility, and that if we take things to seriously, we're fucked.
However, some people don't function this way. They feel as though they have every right to make fun of your mistakes and poor desicions, yet take personaly any joke, or dodge anything said about their own social blunders and possible regrets.
So, If it's funny to joke about me driving into a public restaurant, me falling over at band practice, puking on Frankies house and calling Katie "shirley", etc. Then it's damn fine for me to Joke about Your drunken mishaps, Your whoring around (guy or girl), Your idiot moves. The fact is, If you want people to laugh off your jokes, you damn well better laugh off theirs.... as long as your jokes are funny, and they make sense. Trust me, you screw up a joke, your done. The "pink vibrater" mishap taught me that one. Wether I liked it or not, I had to learn this. So many times was I told "I'm only kidding" or "relax, ass." to have those same people suddenly find a steel rod buried in their ass because some one made a funny at their expense.
Look, don't make fun of people about something, if it bothers you when people make fun of you for it. I've invited problems because I ignored this very statement, and become... you guessed it.. a hypocrite. And another little fun fact I learned, Don't expect some one to tell you what's going on in their life if you've repeatedly cut them down for something similar. e.g. ( relationships, drinking, etc.)
You have to expect people to accept imperfections and goofy shit, but how can you ask that if you aren't willing to practice it?
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