Are women funny? | Hitch-athon part 2!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- More euphonic pleasantries this week with Christopher Hitchens defending a bizarre position that women are fundamentally unable to tickle our ribcage. Another of his gratuitous sessions swimming against the consensus!
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No need for slogans. I do think they are not necessary in some circumstances, but thank you for great idea. I will try to incorporate one into my daily life.
I thought you said someone is stealing your car, but I probably misheard you
I read the women aren't funny article in Vanity Fair and I wondered why the only comedians I've found funny for the past 25 years are women: Tracey Ullman, Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler. And I've known several funny women personally; in fact, I've run across more funny women than I have funny men. I understand Hitchens' point, though. He's not saying women can't be funny; he's saying that, as far as the dating (or mating) game goes, there isn't a necessity for them to be so.
I also wouldn't agree with the proposition that men develop a sense of humour in order to find a mate. While it may be employed and utilised for that matter, wit is a fundamental character trait whose origin has much deeper roots than the desire to woo.
If you take any time at all to consider hitchens points in that essay you realise he actually doesn't say anything that true or interesting.
At one point he claims that women who are funny tend to be more masculine, which is not true. I know many funny women whose humour is contained within a wholly feminine persona.
@@jackbicknell4711 I can't disagree with anything you've said, Jack. I am quite aware of the psychological underpinnings of humor. I've read Freud's "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious." I agree with each of his major premises, particularly how jokes relate -- in their construction -- to slips of the tongue and the dream work. And, as you pointed out, the supposition that funny women are more masculine than women as a whole seems rather specious. If you analyzed the psyche of funny women, I doubt whether you'd discover that they have unusually pronounced cases of penis envy.
Oh let's not bring that straw-clutching charlatan into this! NONE of Freud's pontifications are falsifiable or observable, and rely entirely on the credulousness of wispy academics. Whatever he's said on the matter can be discounted ad infinitum.
@@JoeSpivey02 He made many baseless claims but lots of what Freud theorised is observable to subtle senses. There's no doubting the man had profound insight into the psyche. To disregard everything he wrote is a strange move.