I actually think it works better with “a” in it because it gets me thinking about a Ford instead of just Ford. It helps my brain with the word play.
I honestly don’t think in needs the counter GM reference because that gets my brain thinking in the realm of cars, and I didn’t get why a GM would cross streams.
Reminds me of the long tail joke about the racing snail with an S on the side. The punch line being " look at that S car go!"
I don’t see what you see. A million dad jokes hinging on a straight partner? I don’t see that. Most dad jokes have nothing to do with any relationship like that.
But I agree with your premise, if that joke exists and it can be told as a gay partner then its fine.
Yes. I agree. I was getting that from the context of the post, and I think that can be left up to the reader to maturely ingest and up/down vote.
Arguing that xyz people exist or not isn’t the point. Its a matter of if it is part of the joke or not. If “2 guys” are just 2 guys in a joke I don’t care what they are. They can be gay, straight, black, Jewish whatever. But if it becomes part of the joke, then the fact that they are gay makes it sexual which then makes it an uncle joke. If its based on heterosexual sexuality its then not a dad joke either. Same for ethnicity and religion and everything else “taboo”.
Again, I missed the original drama that started this, but its OK to segregate jokes into different categories and its also OK to not be too sensitive over gray area.
If the point of the joke involves mature topics they are uncle jokes, not dad jokes. There’s a place for both and I enjoy both.
Honestly if there’s any question or doubt then refrain from it here.
The flip side of that coin is that this is a text format so its not like readers can’t pick and choose what they choose to like and up/down vote. We’re not in a rigid world.
Yep, much cleaner.