Maybe I'm just feeling cranky. But, trigger icon added, just in case other people find these brands of "humor" as offensive as I do.

I browse humor pages sometimes when I'm depressed and want to pick up my spirits. But lately, maybe I'm getting old and out of step. Nowadays....

*If it depicts an evil or cruel act, it's funny.
*If it insults women, minorities, or disabled people, it's funny.
*If it involves sex or certain body parts, it's funny.

I am so sick of jokes where the punch line, stripped down to bare bones, leaves:

"Women should be in the kitchen making 'sammiches,' but nowhere else."
"Women belong in the bedroom performing sexual acts, but nowhere else."
"Women get abused because they deserve it."
"People with disabilities don't have feelings, so it's OK to laugh at them."
"Child abuse, especially pedophilia, is something to laugh at."
"Anyone with a difference is a fair target for abuse."

On one page I reported (thankfully the administrator agreed with me and promptly removed it) a photo of a boy with Down's Syndrome wearing a t-shirt that read, "At least I'm not a (rhymes with trigger)." That's supposed to be funny? At another site, a news story of a mentally retarded child being harshly punished at school for wetting her pants, prompted the peanut-gallery comment, "I don't see the problem. She's a ginger. By rights, she should be beaten daily." THIS is supposed to be funny? I've seen a photo of a woman cowering in the corner, a man standing threateningly over her, with the caption, "Dishes. Do them NOW!" Which garnered the comment, "Right on. She shouldn't have to be told."

And, lately one of my favorite places to go for laughs seems to have been taken over by nothing but photos of things that resemble male body parts. Anatomically correct snow sculptures, inadvertently cast shadows, badly designed products, whatever.

Am I the one who doesn't have a sense of humor?