All I Really Want is Girls
For a good laugh, visit Jeff's defense of funny females. The first clip alone, from My Name is Earl, will give you lasting giggles.
Amazingly, Jeff includes every woman who's ever made me laugh hysterically. I do believe Kathy Griffin is the only missing link. So here she is.
And yes I'm in there, too. Which means Jeff is back on my list. To hell with processed cheese spray.
posted by kate @ 5:32 AM
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Just got finished reading the Hitchen's article from Vanity Fair entitled "Why Women are Not Funny". From the education I have received on this blog on the subject, my guess is that Hitchens is of the ilk that would conspire to sit players with other fantasy "leaguers" so as to questionably secure a place in the "playoffs".
I've read high school term papers with stronger arguments for their thesis. I don't recall ever reading Hitchens but my guess is either a) He is dumber than a bag of hair, or b) He was on deadline and he took the "make four phone calls and cite 2 studies" approach to churning out an article.
He has "one foot on the boat and one foot on the dock" asserting his theory and then conceding over and over by naming a litany of examples of funny women. It is as if he, himself, is whittling down his claim from a mountain to a postage stamp saying "okay....I'll give you these 78 good and contradictory examples,.... but all I'm saying is...."
I have heard better debate techniques utilized by drunken fraternity brothers.
There are too many paradoxes in the article to even begin, but it so poorly crafted to be believed. The one disturbing thing is that Hitchen's asserts that "Women aren't funny" when perhaps the actual interesting question might be, "why men and women are different when it comes to humor". True, some of it is biological.
But the fact is that in this country alone, for a large part of our history, women were basically treated as chattel, we haven't even reached 100 years since suffrage and only a few short generations ago, a girl doings things that boys could do freely and without ramification would get them a one-way bus ticket to a convent. For that matter, women accept the fact that they take a much greater risk of being victimized based solely on their gender.
Even if Hitchen's article had any merit, disregarding such factors as to why men and women, may or may not approach humor differently, is irresponsible.
Mr. Hitchen's should come to the earth-shattering conclusion that the genders have a different history and see the world differently. However, the one thing that I know is that women are funny, our wonderful blog mistress(?), included. You can take your Jessica Simpson's and Pamela Anderson's all decked out in a "barely-there" bikini, I'll take Tracy Ullman in her bathrobe and slippers anyday.
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