Keeley

“A better standard would be intention. If someone says something that offends us - but their intentions was humor - than we should respond far differently to that than we would if the person intended to be cruel.”
― Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred and We’re All in This Together—Finding Healing through Humor on Sensitive Topics

“The fact that the government is allowed to steal my money and incarcerate me if I don't comply, so that they can use if for whatever it feels like-like a good-for-nothing study, or an anti-vaping campaign, or a war-is infuriating. They take our money to spend on wars that they lie to us about, and then gaslight us whenever we happen to notice that they've been lying, and then they do it again.”
― Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred and We’re All in This Together—Finding Healing through Humor on Sensitive Topics

“Plus, there's this: Without forgiveness, comedy just can't exist. Mistakes are inevitable when it comes to comedy.”
― Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred and We’re All in This Together—Finding Healing through Humor on Sensitive Topics

“If we condition our culture to believe that any joke that upsets any person demands a groveling, on-the-floor apology, then we are going to get exactly what we asked for-fewer jokes, less honesty, and a really unforgivingly low fuckup threshold for ourselves.
Also, if what you're looking for from an apology is for people to actually forgive you, then you might be extremely disappointed.”
― Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred and We’re All in This Together—Finding Healing through Humor on Sensitive Topics