And, with such a target, it is not very difficult to poke holes and pile on the ridicule.

But Russian memory is also subject to Western style postmodernist mockery.

The cybercrime law and its proponents have also become the targets of ridicule online.

What we fear is the judgment and ridicule of others. And it exists.

On Twitter the reaction to this measure was a mixture of scepticism, mockery and sarcasm

The derided actor has become a respected director, and his acting is no longer the target of ironic comments.

This revived tradition has been subject to ridicule by humorists in several Balkan countries.

Nothing reflects this better than how protection and protectionists have become terms of derision.

The 2007 law criminalizing the ownership of slaves was received with resistance and scoffing.

His poor sense of geography broke the hearts of his fans and made him an easy target for a banter in the internet.

Against a chorus of taunts and insults we put our clothes back on and they start assigning us to our cells.

Black people have also been targeted by comedian Danilo Gentili, in this case with a comment on Twitter, in which he offered bananas to a black netizen.

Instead of just scoffing at this heresy that a kid wanted to get published or saying wait until you're older, my parents were really supportive.

Andonov's whirlwind tour of government inspired a great deal of ridicule on social media, where Internet users marveled at the man who was interior minister for a day.

Recognised by their long beards, and short garbs (thobe), Salafists, who follow a strict interpretation of Islam, were the butt of jokes on Twitter under a new hash tag SalafiAwkwardMoments.

Second, the Labor party has proven politically bankrupt, with its only conceivable leader being the 82 year old Shimon Peres and its anachronistic dovish optimism the source of much ridicule.

For the past several years, President Barack Obama has undoubtedly been the RuNet s favorite target, but the tide of mockery has recently shifted to another person in the US government.

The fact that science is finding connections between women s sexual experience and their emotions and perception should not be cause for mockery, but for curiosity and respectful investigation of the facts. There are plenty of data on male sexuality and the male brain, and sound new science on the mind body connection is transforming medical practice, from cardiology s use of meditation to the use of talk therapies in treating breast cancer.

The fact that science is finding connections between women s sexual experience and their emotions and perception should not be cause for mockery, but for curiosity and respectful investigation of the facts.

Because of his wit, humorous writings and uncompromising digs on religion, his friends tweaked Zelalem s name into the name of the imminent French writer Zola, whom Zelalem himself read with great enthusiasm.

Over the years, however, as the world economy continued to grow without interruption and, in the current age of globalization, seemingly without limits the dire predictions of the Club of Rome have become increasingly an object of ridicule.

Your measures are barely containment rules to appease Marco Rubio your presidential campaign adversary who ridiculed you on several occasions, not because he's especially brilliant, but because it's so easy to mock you.

Change.org and Activism.org have each launched a petition to cancel the broadcasting of The Mission How would you like to see your mother, who has survived unimaginable violence, becoming an object of ridicule as an extra on a reality TV show? argues the first of these organisations.