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Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren't Funnyetoile
Just catching up on this thread, (know nothing of the 'Hitch debate),
5 minute video.
Latest post of the previous page:
Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren't Funnyetoile
Just catching up on this thread, (know nothing of the 'Hitch debate),
Thanks for that....I think? I knew he was tiresomely aggressive and never paid him much attention and now I'm even more glad I didn't.Alan C. wrote:Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren't Funnyetoile
Just catching up on this thread, (know nothing of the 'Hitch debate),
5 minute video.
any time, but good on you for being good-humoured, as ever, whatever gets thrown your wayNick wrote:You're too kind....animist wrote: I think Nick is, like Hitch, talking up his sexist arse,
well, opinion, argument, belief - all much the same on something essentially subjective. What I was trying to say is that maybe men, for whatever reason, make more of an effort to be funny than do women - the cliché is of the man trying to impress his intended girlfriend via his wit, whereas if she is funny herself that is kind of competing with him and so unwelcome to him. Being funny is in fact often subversive in some way, and women used not to be encouraged to be subversive, let alone to make a living from being so. Anyway, do you mean that you find the media comediennes less funny than their male counterparts, or do you actually find the women of your own acquaintance less humorous than the men? Are they more serious or just failures at being funny?Nick wrote:I think I'd agree with that, animist, so I'm not sure why it destroys anything I've said (which is an opinion, not an argument).animist wrote: and I have known (and suffered from the wit of) many funny women. Nick, mebbe your comment about male exhibitionism destroys your own argument, since men, more than women, probably still have to prove themselves by, and preferably get paid for, being "funny".