March 2011
3 posts
Peter Byrnes's blog: My two cents on "women in... →
peterbyrnes:
The formidable @trixieboots has responded to the recent piece by @witstreamdotcom on women in humor. I promised Trix when we started to have a debate/discussion on the piece on Twitter (which was maddening due to the forced brevity) that if she would create a tumblr account to say her piece, I…
I shall attempt to respond here without referencing my extensive experience in...
WitStream: I never said women's humor was about... →
witstream:
A) I used the examples of menstruation (men don’t do it), kids (men don’t make ‘em), and trepidation over finances (ok, that’s all of us, but only relatively recently) to illustrate things that women (Sometimes! Not always!) experience that are *different* and therefore somehow threatening to…
While I agree with much of this, I again take issue with the suggestion that what it...
The Question of "Women's Humor"
I don’t have a Tumblr. Usually. But I found Witstream’s recent post on women’s humor provocative enough to break this rule, and I admire and appreciate its thoughtfulness. Here are my two cents on the matter:
I agree with the author’s assessment of why more women don’t cultivate funniness: indeed, it’s historically been a trait dangerously contiguous to...