Amateurism is funny just because it seems like it would have very little opportunity for use. Usually someone accuses another person of BEING an amateur, not of exhibiting amateuristic qualities or of displaying amateurism. It just seems funny that the word exists when there appears to be so little use for it.

Don’t get me started on bipedalism.

It’s bad enough to be caught fiddling with children once, but twice? Throw away the key I say.

Dogmatism has dogged civilization since the first dog was a puppy. Dogmatism is dog gone hard to overcome, no matter how dogged one is in trying. Dogmatism is not our best ideological friend.

Normally a person suffering from scapegoatism should incur your sympathy and understanding and you should help him to see that he alone is not responsible for taking on the blame of the world.

However, if such a person were to work in your office it would be to your advantage to cultivate him so that anything that went wrong in your division would fall on his shoulders.

It would be ideal if he were the boss’ son because then he would always be around.

In much the same way our current president has surrounded himself with people who suffer from this affliction. Famous people who suffer from scapegoatism are: Carl Rove, Colin Powell, Roberto Gonzalos, Pandora, Senator Craig, Hercules, Simon Cowles to name a few.

Anyone with eyes, ears and the ability to understand language knows what feminism is. What you don’t usually hear people say is, “feminism is funny”.

This writer, however, begins a story about feminism in that very way:

Feminism is funny.

At my university, the feminists were known to be a little touchy and humorless about the word ‘women’, as it had the evil word ‘men’ in it. They preferred ‘womyn’.

There was a joke that went, ‘How many Brown women does it take to screw in a lightbulb?’ Answer: ‘It’s ‘womyn’… and that’s not funny!’

The father of one of my classmates caught wind of this and came up with his solution: women has ‘men’ in it, so change that to ‘woperson’. This has ’son’ in it, so change that to ‘woperdaughter’.

…classic political correctness taken to a funny extreme.

I told my wife about this quote, and she responded, “you notice I’m not laughing.”

On the whole, I appreciate anyone willing to stick their neck out and be obnoxious. But I have to say I’m not in agreement with the above writer; in fact, I’m a guy who’s in favor of feminism.

This world would be a hell of a lot nicer place if men didn’t run around acting like we run it.

Alienism is a word or phrase that relates to the status of being alien (yawn).

I like this person’s thinking on alienism better:

I like Alienism, but such word is really complicated. In fact, no one has seen an alien, not even a picture of that. So, how could one say “alienism”, whereinfact, no data has been gathered yet. It’s funny to say there’s an alienism on earth. So, who are the aliens then?

My favorite ism is Morganism.

Why Morganism you may ask?

Well, my name is Morgan, and sometimes I use words incorrectly or do not make any sense. When I do this around my friends, they say that I am a Morganism.

Are other people isms? Yes, I believe so!

In fact, you probably are one right at this moment.

Governmentalism is the best, it’s funny because a lot of my friends work for the government and I like to tease them with this word.

In high school, my girlfriends and I used to crack up trying to speak to each other using isms.

Altruism. I work for a protective and advocacy corporation for the elderly and disabled. The funny thing about altuism is that it is the ultimate in diminishing returns. You think that third candy bar isn’t as good at the first, think about the third deaf/blind schizophrenic of the week that you have to interview through a touch sign language interpreter. You’re tring to find out if they receive any sort of federal benefits, and they are trying to tell you that there are tiny machines in their soup.

An M-Turk quip:

In socialism, the bureaucrats called themself “workers”, because in socialism the country should have been ruled by workers and farmers.

An interesting point, comrad.