Me personally? I’ve become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women’s expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I’ve matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I’ve come to see how exclusionarly and objectifying that sort of ‘humor’ really is, and I regret it deeply.
When I was in middle school a friend of mine used to dress up and call herself a gypsy. Due to where we live, we didn’t know that word was tied to a real life culture. We thought it meant fantasy-like hippies.
Years later I found out the actual meaning behind it and freaked out. Sadly I wasn’t still in contact with her by that time, or I would’ve told her. Though her parents would’ve complained about it…
The full word “gypsy” is not a common pejorative in the US any more (if it ever was) – if anything, I would argue that as a descriptor, it means someone is a free spirit, that lives a non-normative, romanticized life. That said, it’s clear that the US inherited pejorative descriptors from somewhere because “to gyp” is to rip off someone. That said, I wonder if the US adopted “to gyp” as a toned down version of “to jew” after casual anti-semitism rightfully became unacceptable in the public sphere in the 20th century. If so, the lack of a sizeable Roma population in the US probably made “gyp” seem like a suitable alternative to a society that accepts “othering” in the mainstream.