Monday, May 24, 2021

 A joke Lenny Bruce made performing at a nightclub (sometime in either the late 1950s or early 1960s) that got him arrested due to the necessity of an unavoidable profanity without which the skit would have been rendered ineffectual:

"...parents are all up in arms upon learning than a certain camp counselor recently admitted to being a homosexual.

Just WHAT IS IT these parents are afraid of?  That their son's going to return from camp and say "Hey mom, camp was great!  We had all kinds of activities---fishing, woodworking, hiking, baseball, swimming, barbecuing, and cock-sucking!"

...clearly taking a stab at the dogmas and social prejudices of that timeframe.

The idea that just because someone is different in one critical area it automatically means that "nothing else about them can be normal either".


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