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=Title of Speech=

Women's Rights

=Text of Speech= Q: What sits in the kitchen and gets smaller and smaller? A: A baby combing its hair with a potato peeler. Some call this twisted. Some call this sick. Some call this inappropriate or offensive.But some people might use these very same words to describe incest! Where has the world gone?!? Everything we encounter has a funny side no matter how horrible, depressing, or sickening it may be. Personally I would much rather laugh than cry. The faint hearted pussies who get offended at the optimistic nature of black humorists need to stop being SO serious. Life shouldn’t hurt your feelings! Most importantly, just because someone recognizes the humor in a situation doesn’t mean that they don’t also recognize the seriousness or moral implications of the circumstance as well. Seriousness is spoiling our world. This one goes out to all you condescending narks. Serious people who remind me of responsibility when I’m busy having fun! We all die eventually, being dead serious about everything is not going to expand our short life nor enrich it. Its time to learn to understand why you might be overreacting and overlooking the genuine humor we humans call life. If there wasn’t truth behind crude jokes, they wouldn’t be funny! But they are! When I was in 6th grade my best friend went on a three week family vacation. While they were away their housekeeper stopped in to feed their pets… Or so we thought. When she came home from airport I met her at her house, I followed her into the kitchen and to the fridge for a glass of milk. When she pulled open that shiny door there was her cat, cold, dead and in a Ziploc bag. We both began to cry… only in very different ways. Sure it could have been offensive to my friend that I was laughing at her cats corpse, but it wasn’t because she’s not an uptight party pooper. I admit that people have some obligation to be sensitive of others. I also acknowledge that we can’t spend our lives in a dampened mood because these losers walk around getting offended like ……. In addition, just because I laugh at a cat in a bag doesn’t mean that I didn’t feel badly or sorry that my friend lost her childhood pet to an unknown cause. A taste for black humor doesn’t indicate that a person doesn’t consider brutality involved or that they don’t realize the political effects and associations their jokes have. Making things less serious with the use of dark humor just lightens the mood and should not further upset the applecart. All of you who are terrible at getting the punch line, are genuinely troubled by a jokes content or think that joking is a form of personal attack, LIGHTEN UP: Because I want to grow old in an America where people are less serious.

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