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[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (18 children)

He reportedly joked that the secret to a long marriage was ensuring your spouse was "someone who is always mildly sedated so she can never realise there are better men out there"

"In what was always understood as a private conversation James, the Home Secretary tackling spiking, made what was clearly meant to be an ironic joke - for which he apologises," a spokesperson for Cleverly said in a statement.

So a self-deprecating, incredible obvious joke, told in private to friends, has people jumping to be offended!

People really need to save their outrage for serious stuff because being outraged over something like this minimizes actually serious situations. It's like the boy who cried wolf(read: outrage).

Edit: is also fairly obvious that most of you just read the headline and popped in to be outraged. Merry Christmas!

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (16 children)

It's a joke about drugging your wife. You know that's a real thing that happens, right?

You'll have to forgive me for not finding "I abuse my wife" a funny joke. I dont find abusing women to be a funny subject, really no matter the context. If he had said, "The secret to my long marriage is beating my wife," would you have still found it funny? Or is it only acceptable because the joke is that he is drugging her? I can not imagine what I would do if my spouse said something like that about me. It's violating demeaning and humiliating. A total lack of respect for me.

[–] Seventhlevin@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I showed the joke to my wife and she said that it was a good idea and she would try it on me.

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