Before Thanksgiving, I joked that many men would not object to the TSA pat-down procedure if it were administered by Victoria’s Secret supermodels. It is obviously true, and I meant it not to objectify women but to mock men. Still, a faithful reader objected that I was making light of something serious, and that our standards of holiness had declined. Perhaps he’s right – but that’s not the point.
It got me thinking. About the right and wrong uses of humor. The value of humor in bringing light into dark situations. And yet the danger of using humor in a way that degrades what is truly sacred and valuable.
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