Title: Think Sarcasm is Funny? Think Again | Psychology Today
Headings: Think Sarcasm is Funny? Think Again
Clifford N. Lazarus Ph.D.
Think Sarcasm is Funny? Think Again
Is sarcasm really just hostility disguised as humor?

Content: The effects of malicious sarcasm
Submitted by Anonymous on December 1, 2013 - 2:45am
I think the author is implying that his article is about people who use sarcasm regularly with bad INTENT to hurt or embarrass others. I just broke off a friendship with a woman who constantly and annoyingly used sarcasm to put me and everyone else down. Malicious gossip and sarcasm just screams out insecurity. Sarcasm with malicious intent really is thinly veiled anger and hostility. It's sad how that old saying of how people put others down to feel better about themselves is true. And sarcasm most certainly is a sign of that type of desperate insecurity. Sarcasm is also polarizing and isolating. Every attempt this woman made to put others (including myself!) down, only made me think less of her. She's just not self aware enough to realize that.