In You Can’t Joke About That, Kat Timpf shows why much of the way we talk about sensitive subjects is wrong.

We’ve created all the wrong rules.

We push ourselves into unnecessary conflicts when we should feel like we’re all in this together.

When someone says “you can’t joke about that,” what they really mean is “this is a subject that makes people sad or angry.”Hilariously and movingly, Timpf argues that those subjects are actually the most important to joke about.

She shows us we can find healing through humor regarding things you probably don't want to bring up in polite conversation, like traumatic break-ups, cancer, being broke, Dave Chappelle, rape jokes, aging, ostomy bags, religion, body image, dead moms, religion, the lab leak theory, transgender swimmers, gushing wounds, campus censorship, and bad Christmas presents.