Comments on: Come on, ladies! Don’t be so humorless. Can’t you take a joke?

By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-03-04

Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-03-04 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:23:00 +0000

[...] Feministe » Come on, ladies! Don’t be so humorless. Can’t you take a joke? “Hey, remember what I said earlier about this kind of acceptance of blatant misogyny in our nation’s mainstream media having nothing at all to do with the dearth of women on the op-ed pages, except as instruments with which to tear down women as a whole (tags: feminism assholes women bullshit media msm) [...]

By: anythings.org » Stick to what you’re good at: housemaking, swooning, etc.

anythings.org » Stick to what you’re good at: housemaking, swooning, etc. — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:18:52 +0000

[...] think every single feminist blog I read has picked up on this already, but it’s my turn now: So I don’t [...]

By: Hector B.

Hector B. — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:47:52 +0000

Wapo: Chicks ‘R’ Dumb! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Whassamatter? No sense of humor?

By: person

person — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:39:17 +0000

Ok, looking into it I see that I was wrong. I wish it was a joke though.

By: SarahMC

SarahMC — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:04:21 +0000

It’s not a “joke” when the writer actually believes what she’s writing. Check out her background. She’s a professional anti-feminist, not a humorist.

By: Tricia(freya)

Tricia(freya) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:31:45 +0000

Daisy: Just, gah. That was horrid. Some of her points were “technically true,” i.e. yes a lot of the anthropological/archaeological theory has been re-evaluated (so has most of the male-dominated work of the early 20th century, it’s called progress), but most of her conclusions are completely out of left field. The Romantic school invented entire cultural mythologies out of whole cloth? WTF?

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:22:02 +0000

Yeah, I hear jokes all the time that try to prove the point of the joke by trotting out all sorts of bogus “science.” I mean, that’s usually how you write satire, right? By supporting it with “scientific facts?”

By: katlyn

katlyn — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:12:08 +0000

It WAS a joke. I think I’ll unsubscribe to this blog that cannot detect irony.

Go for it. I’m sure Jill doesn’t want subscribers who can’t tell the difference between a “joke” and straightforward sexism.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:24:08 +0000

Hey, don't forget my favorite! (hold your noses first, you've been warned) Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality This was the first place I ever heard of her.

By: zuzu

zuzu — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:04:31 +0000

So, big deal, she affected a “ditz” voice. Does that lessen the hatefulness of what she said?