The joke is more likely to resonate with the audience if it corresponds to their experience.
If they laugh, that proves I’m right;
Note the difference in meaning between the two italicized phrases?
if they boo, that proves I’m right.
What did I say that could reasonably be interpreted this way?
(Edit: thinking about it, I think I see how you got that impression: Laughter is evidence that you’re right, an extreme negative reaction is weaker evidence that you’re onto something. Indifference, or a non-extreme negative reaction is thus evidence that you’re wrong.)
That in a marriage, the natural and desirable order of things is that man shall be the absolute ruler and woman the slave, and that any other arrangement is a futile struggle against our fundamental biological nature that if pursued will bring only doom and destruction?
Seriously, could you at least try not to straw-man my position?
Note the difference in meaning between the two italicized phrases?
What did I say that could reasonably be interpreted this way?
(Edit: thinking about it, I think I see how you got that impression: Laughter is evidence that you’re right, an extreme negative reaction is weaker evidence that you’re onto something. Indifference, or a non-extreme negative reaction is thus evidence that you’re wrong.)
Seriously, could you at least try not to straw-man my position?
Consider “proves” replaced by “is evidence in favour of”. It doesn’t change my point.
That’s the other half of the pattern—which you obligingly go on to complete:
Did you read the sentence I wrote after that one?
Yes. The whole argument’s a crock.
Consider “proves” replaced by “is evidence in favour of”. It doesn’t change my point.
That’s the other half of the pattern—which you obligingly go on to complete:
Consider “proves” replaced by “is evidence in favour of”. It doesn’t change my point.
That’s the other half of the pattern—which you obligingly go on to complete: