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Brian from Blackpool tells his joke about a Scouse guy is in a bar having a quiet drink alone...

01 Jun
2007

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A Scouse guy is in a bar having a quiet drink alone when he's approached by a little gay camp guy who cuddles up alongside him at the bar and says 'Do you fancy a blow job?' at which point the Liverpudlian guy jumps up, takes him by the throat, knocks him to the floor, beats him unconscious, kicks him out the door and leaves him for dead.

He returns to his seat at the bar and the barman says to him 'I don't know what he did to warrant that treatment - what did he actually say to you?' and the Scouser says 'He said something about a --- job!'

Marie Gillespie Marie Gillespie Marie says

This joke is told by a man from Blackpool about Scousers. It is a common type of joke in male only groups where the term gay is used as an insult to heterosexual masculinity and prowess. Researchers have documented the ways in which such jokes are used as a way of regulating male sexuality and maintaining rigid hierarchies of masculinity.

For example, very tough, heterosexual, macho guys place themselves at the top of the hierarchy and those they deem to be 'effeminate' are labelled as 'wimps' or 'gays' and relegated to the bottom. Studies of male cultures in secondary schools also show how such humour can be very oppressive especially when ritual enactments of such jokes are used as an adjunct and catalyst of violence.

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