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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • Imagine for a second, that you’ve been looked down on, seriously, in your career, for being a man. Imagine it’s a common attitude that men are only suitable for manual labor. You study, learn, and work hard to become a male pioneer of space travel. You’ve put up with all the discouragement for being male, overcome it all. And then, when you actually get up to the space station with your colleagues, they give you more shit for being male. It doesn’t really matter if they’re joking, because to you, it’s the reality that you face. We might find that kind of joke funny because it’s kind of absurdist. To us, it’s not something that would happen seriously. But, there are people out there who legitimately hold that belief and women have to deal eith them. We don’t. I think that’s really the core of it. To the jokers, it’s funny, because it’s not reality. To the jokee, it’s how life is sometimes, it’s not absurd, it’s not fake, it’s not a joke.

    Of course, context matters, what you and your close friends and family find funny and joke about is entirely up to you all. Just the workplace, with people you’re not close to, is definitely not the time and place for it.