Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2010
A mockery is that action or words through which people or things will be ridiculed.
Actions or words that seek to ridicule people or things with the mission of annoying them
The fundamental mission of the mockery will be look for the ridicule of that person , for fun or for the simple fact of making her feel bad, since it does not turn out to be our esteem.
Somehow the mocker feels a deep pleasure in doing so, and therefore you will greatly enjoy when you make the person you are making fun of feel uncomfortable, belittled and annoyed by that action.
A common practice that emphasizes physical and mental traits or defects
The mockery turns out to be a universal practice, that is, almost all human beings at some point in life have made fun of someone, anyway, when They exceed a limit, becoming attacks, can cause serious psychic damage to the recipient of the herself.
"To have imitated me in such an unpleasant way has been an unforgivable mockery."
Although the ridicule of someone is one of the most common jokes that we can find, and that consists of imitating the person by highlighting their
traits more outgoing physical and psychic, it is also extremely common for people to make fun of the physical defects that some people present, we can go from the simplest and less painful such as glasses with a high magnification, stuttering, limping, or the lack of one of someone's upper or lower limbs, among others.They trigger bullying, violence and discrimination and isolate the person who suffers it
In the latter case, when the mockery involves laughing or making jokes, jokes, about some of the defects just mentioned, it is precisely how much more damage can we cause to the person receiving them because precisely that individual suffers a lot already with that problem surely and on top of that he has to bear that the rest of the people remind him and what is even worse make jokes about they.
In many cases, these events can lead the person who is teased to become socially isolated with all the negative triggers that this will have in her life. And not to mention that you can also develop a strong depression.
Teasing almost always triggers the so famous bullying or bullying in educational settings, discrimination and of course the violence.
For example, we must be measured with the jokes we make, it is very good that we laugh and have fun, even with our defects and those of others, but You always have to do it in a healthy, shared way, in which the dignity of the other is not affected because there if it stops being something funny to become a aggression.
The limit is that the recipient of the mockery does not laugh, does not enjoy it, but suffers it.
Cheated
On the other hand, there will also be talk of mockery when there is a deception or lack of confidence. "The mockery of MarĂa had the sole objective of keeping her money."
That is, many people use tricks and deceptions against other people to get a profit, a profit or directly take advantage of some situation. The fact of keeping money or a precious material good is one of the most common jokes that can be made.
Joke
The other of the extended uses of the term is as synonym of joke. In this sense, the joke can consist of a short story or a short series of words that will have the clear mission of making a person laugh. receiver. In this sense, the aim will almost always be humorous, to entertain and amuse an audience with mockery, although there are also mockeries that present political connotations.
Disease
And in some parts of the world the term is also used to designate that series of nervous diseases of the convulsive type.
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