Do you eat ice cream?

[d000hg]

QED. You think it out of order (as do I but that's not the point), others don't. It's not offensive, homophobic or anything else, just marginally bad taste. There's a world of difference. Offensive, AFAIC, is anything about gross differences such as impairment. But it still says a lot more about the person making the "joke" than anything else. Ignore the morons - especially those telling us to be offended - and move on.

At surface level it's just bad taste, not intended as an insult to gay people I'm sure.

But all these kind of jokes are predicated on the idea that being gay is in some way 'worse' than not being gay (or a woman, or black, or Irish or fat or ginger). It's not simply an assertion that gay people eat ice-cream. That wouldn't be amusing... it's the implication that if he were gay that would be a bad thing. It's done at a subconscious level but ultimately it's exactly the same as when we were kids and would call each other gay/bum-chums as an insult. We didn't actually think the other kid was gay but on some level we were educated that being gay was 2nd-class.

Bit of a serious reply and actually I think comedy based on stereotypes is not the worst thing. I'm happy to hear jokes about my inability to dance or talk to tradesmen or taxi drivers But you gotta be careful.

[NotAllThere]

...I don't know how to say Medronho in English so I inserted the picture here.

The English word is "Medronho".

[Bee]

The English word is "Medronho".