Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Negative Humour

I have a friend whom I’m starting to detest. She’s a very normal Chinese singaporean in her earlier 30s, married, no children with nice car/house and husband in tow. She has this really bad habit of using negative humour on people to make others laugh.

For an example, if a person is fat, she’ll crack fat jokes about that person right in front of that person. If the person has bad skin or is vertically challenged - ditto. Usually the person who is the butt of the jokes will laugh along just to keep the mood. I don’t think this is good. In fact, I’ve alway been against negative humour, having had it etched into my brain during a catholic youth camp. I think tearing people down to make yourself feel good is about as low as you can, if you do it in front of them.

Amazingly, this woman is also a youth counselor. She counsels troubled youth. I cannot even begin to imagine the damage this woman is wrecking on young teenagers. This kind of mental abuse will not peter out with age.

I love meeting these people. Maybe you should post her photo somewhere on the internet and let me give her a word or too. And oh.. put her email addy there too. Hahaha!

sounds like your friend needs to go for a looong walk with Angry Beaver and a fast drive with me down AYE,PIE and ECP.

The counselling maybe to ease off the guilt… OR… The negative humour is just to offset for too much good she’s done? kekekekeke…

Darren > cannot lah, I won’t stoop to her level

SD > hahhahahaa

ian > I dunno man, maybe she’s really insecure or something.