Timeline for Phrase for criticism/insults concealed with humor
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| Apr 28, 2015 at 20:13 | comment | added | Wapiti | Satire serves a higher master than humor. Very well said! | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 20:07 | comment | added | user98990 | Yes, I see what you mean, and you are correct, satire serves a higher master than humor. Satire is truly (optimistically) intended as a "corrective," disarming psychological defenses via a humor which is really but a means to an end. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | Wapiti | I suppose you're right that I could satirize my wife in the bathroom, and that it doesn't necessarily need to be public. Trying to be more precise about what doesn't seem to fit here: generally the object of satire deserves to be satirized, or else it's not really satire. Satire is an exposé. It seems the phenomenon I'm thinking of an inverse, failed, or undeserved/unfair satire. But this inherits the associations of satire, which then seem a bit extraneous. I am trying for the exactness of 'satire' in a single word or phrase... | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 19:49 | comment | added | user98990 | Satire is here used as a technique which utilizes humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule in order to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. The technique is as equally applicable in private as in public. That said, I completely understand if you’d prefer another answer. :-) | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 19:29 | comment | added | Wapiti | Of course it can be. But the phenomenon I am describing is necessarily personal and need have nothing to do with a public forum. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | user98990 | Satire can indeed be personal and often serves psychological ends. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 19:25 | comment | added | Wapiti | Ok, but I don't think that you can satirize somebody if it is just you and them in your home. Satire requires a public forum, no? Also, the intent behind satire need not have any psychological component at all. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 16:33 | history | answered | user98990 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |