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Does anyone have any good alternative to saying "dad joke?"

The term "dad" in "dad joke" excludes anyone who doesn't, is incapable, or chooses not to have children (procreating?) and who also identifies (explicitly or implicitly) as a member of the category "male" (a vestigial term from the sex-assigned binary heterodoxy).

I don't think calling "dad jokes" just "jokes" is precise enough language because people typically are trying to refer to a genre of joke when they use the term.

Maybe "cringe funnies?" Although "cringe" is more of a slang term from the internet and isn't robust enough to survive into perpetuity...

I'm actually serious... What are some good alternatives?



Well, one shouldn't tell dad jokes as they encourage violence, especially against dads themselves.

In a dad joke the punchline is apparent.


> Does anyone have any good alternative to saying "dad joke?"

If you ask my kids, a good alternative would be for me to just not tell any jokes.

(See what I did there? That's a dad joke, and I'm proud of it.)


Just call them dad jokes because there's nothing wrong with that.


middle-aged joke


Ageist...


Ageist!


Middle-aged people are the only group of people that can be PC abused, laughed at, etc. Better if they are of middle class. No one cares about them, even themselves think they are pitiful.


Italians. Apparently we Italians can be still the butt of jokes and stereotypes with impunity.




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