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Why Women Aren't Funny (2007)
- B-Con 14y agoWithout commenting on the content of the article, I did find myself amused by this line: > Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about. So many times I will read an article that dares talk about some mildly sensitive topic and two paragraphs in I can already see the plethora of idiotic ways the article will be interpreted and mis-construed. It's simply too hard to cover all your bases in anything less than a thesis and there seem to be an army of people out there who refuse to take anything written on the Internet as less than one. When I read comments on such a piece (why, WHY, do I do that so often?) I'm rarely disappointed. So many of said comments are blind nit-picking, blatant misconstruing, etc, and make me want to yell, "you KNOW what the author meant, why are you trying so hard to PRETEND that you don't?" Good for him -- and anyone -- for inserting this sort of "you know what I mean?" disclaimer. In real life this kind of statement is implied in a lot of casual conversation.
- manicdee 14y agoScientific research shows women are better at appreciating humour. Vanity Fair reporter displays gross failure of reading comprehension and in a spectacular non sequitur asserts that this means women aren't funny. That article was a joke, right? And only women find it funny?