Friday, February 18, 2011

Recommended Tactics In Reacting To Mean Jokes

By Eric Katz


When someone makes fun of you or jokes about you, you may not always know how to react. The following suggestions however might work for you if you ever get in such situation.

People make fun of other because they want to make them embarrassed or hurt them. This can be avoided if you totally ignore the joke and take it as a normal conversation. Reacting to a joke or defending yourself makes the joke more intensified. Keep the conversation go on.

You can joke in style and responds to a person who makes fun of you. This puts the person joking about you in your place and he/she feels embarrassed instead of you.

But you must be smart enough to deliver a joke in such a fashion that the person making fun of you regrets his/her decision of messing with you. A joke made in such a manner will make him/her know how he/she has made fool of him/her self.

Take the joke positively. Reacting in a defensive way to a joke made about you shows your lack of confidence. You better take the joke as a normal comment or rather amplify it.

Taking an example let's say someone taunts you that you don't go outside your house a lot. Your best response to this taunting can be; yes, in reality this is the first time this year". The person will immediately learn that you do not get hurt by his/her joke as you are comfortable with your skin and don't need to get appreciation from others.

Jokes, many times, have meaning other than the apparent one. Sometimes it is felt quite clearly that the person making the joke has some issue with you or has got hurt. In such a scenario you better try to find the actual meaning of the joke instead of focusing on the apparent meaning.

Handling jokes in a smart way is a skill many people want to have but very few actually demonstrate. This skill shows your ability to respond to people in a good way and you also don't get hurt.




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