I fucking love sarcasm! Truly! So funny!
Actually, sarcasm is the equally ugly twin sister of passive aggression and the go-to for people who are feeling too insecure for sincerity.
Change my mind.
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What rough beast 
No! Sarcasm can be exquisite when it’s done properly, especially for comedic effect. Hugh Laurie in House or Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder are two excellent examples. Jeanine Garofalo. It’s also practically a public service to use sarcasm on someone who really deserves it but is too stupid to be able to respond in kind (racists, homophobes, Islamophobes for example). The equivalent of watching a masters swordsman inflict the type of attack on someone that makes all their clothes fall off without drawing blood.
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Firstly, I loathe Hugh Laurie and find the House character utterly false and contrived. Don’t enjoy Rowan Atkinson either. They are also characters in shows. Think of how people like them might fit into your day to day life and your opinion might be different. Janine Garofalo as well… what you see is her applying sarcasm to situations that may or may not be real. What if she disagreed with you in comversation? Sarcasm is weak.
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I am probably the most sarcastic person in my daily life. Believe me, if Jeanine Garofalo disagreed with me I’d make mincemeat out of her. I also find it to be the best weapon against most of the 100s of moronic misogynists I deal with every week. Does that make me weak? You tell me.
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The most useful tool is just facts or a crowbar.
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And I didn’t say people who use sarcasm are weak. I said sarcasm is weak.
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I think it can be quite creative and also funny. It doesn’t necessarily have to be hurtful. It can also be self-deprecating. It is a tool of wit but you have to know how to use it and how much.
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I’m old and I’ve never experienced it in a positive way.
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Being sarcastic is better than being sardonic, although some would say there isn’t much difference. I think cruelty is the element that tips the balance. If my dad looks at what I’m saying and says, “Are you going out dressed like THAT?” and I respond, “No, I’m going to take this off too before I go” I don’t see the insult in it. (Well, maybe my dad does, but you’d have to ask him)
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Why not just say yes?
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It’s my way of dealing with the hundred millionth repetition of this question without losing my temper. Besides, the look on his face is priceless while he believes, for just one minute, that I might actually be serious.
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