Are there mom jokes? What’s an example?
If regular jokes are for laughs and dad jokes are for groans, what are mom jokes for?
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"Dad jokes" are a kind of patriarchal power move; they amuse the dad but everyone else is expected to respond. I don't think there's an equivalent mom joke genre per se. There's surely other mom-affliated speech genres that reflect their prototypical place in family dynamics.
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In the US the mom jokes are exclusively some variation of how much they like wine. E.g. my mom has a sign in her kitchen “I love cooking with wine sometimes I even add it to the food.”
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mom jokes are extremely specific inside jokes moms have with themselves that are a mix of existential dread and a mockery over the mom experience and the foolery which is their children
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