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Perhaps I am corrupted with recent news coverage, but I'd have liked a simple statement that the woman was actually willing. Perhaps cruelly tempting them or so
by polymatter 13y ago
Perhaps I am corrupted with recent news coverage, but I'd have liked a simple statement that the woman was actually willing. Perhaps cruelly tempting them or something. But you could replace the woman with $500, promise of tenureship or any other desirable thing and the story would still be funny without sexually objectifying women.
- Jach 13y agoI don't think the joke would work as well with just any other desirable thing. The joke sets up the scene with two geeks and a sexy woman and there's some amount of expectation that the joke is going to be about their relative sex drives or the mathematician only knowing how to have sex in theory or something similarly boring and familiar. It's then somewhat surprising when it turns into a joke about philosophical paradoxes and is therefore funnier with the surprise.