{"id":237,"date":"2007-01-07T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/01\/07\/what-an-asshole\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T03:58:12","slug":"what-an-asshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/what-an-asshole\/","title":{"rendered":"What an Asshole"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just read an essay<\/a> by Chrisopher Hitchens called \u201cWhy Women Aren\u2019t Funny.” Obviously, it was written to provoke rebuttal, but why does he even bother? An aging drunken bully, Chistopher Hitchens can always be counted upon to express an obnoxious opinion, maybe as an excuse to pout or lose his temper.<\/p>\n

In his “women aren\u2019t funny argument,” he postulates that men are funnier because:
\n1. Women need only be attractive, so they don\u2019t have to develop a sense of humor.
\n2. Men\u2019s bodies are funnier.
\n3. Women can\u2019t really be funny because motherhood is such serious business.
\n4. Men are the oppressed group, and so more likely to rely on humor to get by.<\/p>\n

Then, he acknowledges that some women are funny, but that\u2019s because they are either \u201chefty, dikey or Jewish.” And THEN he explains as an aside that Jewish humor, based on angst and self-deprecation, is \u201calmost masculine by definition.”<\/p>\n

What a fucking asshole! Why do I take his bait? Because he\u2019s a stupid old windbag who makes too much money and probably just needs a good ramming with my George Bush butt-plug<\/a> (Christmas present, still in its presentation box.)<\/p>\n

Most of the women in my life are hysterically funny, and I expect nothing less from a bright woman. We might not thinks fart humor is the apex of comedy, but I do have a videotape of an evangelist farting through his entire sermon. Maybe Hitchens has noticed that woman are less taken with bathroom humor, or stupid humor in general. I don\u2019t believe that this proves his argument, though.<\/p>\n

Could it be that Hitchens feels threatened by women who are aggressively funny? \u00a0 He\u2019s cool with Fran Lebowitz, whose humor is low-key and sardonic. But of course she\u2019s a dikey Jew.<\/p>\n

I wonder if he\u2019s ever watched Saturday Night Live? He goes on to point out that women don\u2019t welcome humor that\u2019s aimed at their offspring, as though that makes us bad sports, not fit to be members of the Funny Club. Do fathers enjoy jokes at the expense of their children? \u00a0 Maybe Christopher\u2019s buddies do. When they\u2019re not busy \u00a0 hating women and worrying about their funnier bodies.<\/p>\n

At least when a woman writes an essay like Why Men Pretend to Like Jazz, for example, she can back it up with scientific fact!
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