When someone possessing empathy feels like a parody you should probably check yourself.
If cracking a joke were lack of empathy, then all humour would be sociopathy.
Jokes about short people? Ruled out. Jokes about dense people, religious people, eunuchs, Trump, Mao Zedong, noisy next door neighbours, teachers, lawyers and Uber drivers, all decreed out of existence because the recipients could find them offensive and sharing them would signal a disturbing lack of empathy. In short, the death of humour. And all because of your inability to understand that humour - like the great Robert McKee pointed out long ago - operates on a different bandwidth. Humour requires the suspension of empathy. Evidently, it doesn't mean one is permanently crippled and deprived of this emotion. It's temporarily set aside so that the joke can run its course. Anyone can drop an one-liner about a blindman and act kindly towards a real blind person in the next minute. There is no contradiction. But since all you seem to have is a hammer, then everything will surely look like a nail to you.
The invented gender shit is hyperbolic nonsense to make fun of legitimate discourse and empathy directed toward those that actually don't fit directly into just one of two genders.
I understand that. But you must also come to terms with the fact some people believe gender is not a mere social construct but rather a hard biological fact. Some of these people don't hold any spite or animosity towards trans people. That is not their motivation. In fact, some continue to show great empathy towards Trans and do not try to downplay the often immerse suffering associated with these situations. However, that doesn't mean they're ready to deny reality, notably, basic biology. If you want to change their minds, by all means present a rational case.
How the fuck is making fun of "assuming someone's gender" not making fun of trans people?
If jokes about Trans people are not allowed, why should jokes about, say, congressmen be allowed? No jokes at all, is that your solution?
How about just get some goddamned empathy for marginalized people?
How about you understand not all human behaviour can be traced down to a single common explanation? Can you do that? Or would that be too nuanced for you?
If a joke is offensive to a large amount of them then just believe them.
I'm sorry. No one but me gets to decide my behaviour in this regard. If some cannot fathom what humour is, then yes, there is a limitation at play here, but it isn't mine and it's not lack of empathy.
Should there be a moratory on all humour, since any joke is bound to offend someone, somewhere, sometime? That's the question you're welcome to answer.
It's offensive to my trans friends and instead of arguing about "well, actually," I just don't fucking say it.
And you have every right to behave the way you see fit. But me, I am certainly not under any sort of obligation to live my life according to your and your friends' opinions. Especially because you don't seem to be able to make a case for them. If and when you rectify this shortcoming, I might join you.
Because I don't need to say it. Because I care about them as people. I care about their livelihood and their mental healt
I will not live my life according to your diktat.
Oh, now I get it. It's so fucking hilarious to make fun of the marginalized group and those that care about them because they ask to be identified in a way that more properly fits their existence and that inconveniences my privilege.
Cracking a joke is now a privilege? Do you know what privilege is? Who - exactly - has been deprived from the ability to make fun of anyone he or she bloody wants?
Please.
hahahahaha. Oh god, it's so good and man is it original. I totally wasn't hearing that [checks notes] two years ago.
Your lengthy post has very little in the way of substantiation.
Too bad.