{"id":33,"date":"2003-01-30T02:23:31","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T09:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/01\/02\/alas-im-thuddingly-unfunny\/"},"modified":"2003-01-30T02:23:31","modified_gmt":"2003-01-30T09:23:31","slug":"alas-im-thuddingly-unfunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Alas, I'm Thuddingly Unfunny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diane E<\/a>. isn’t amused by my anti-feminist light bulb jokes<\/a>. That’s okay; conservatives who send lefties “fuck you fuck you fuck you” emails aren’t my target audience. It’s a sad fact of life: generally righties don’t find lefty political humor funny (and vice-versa). So long as folks like Tina Faye, Jon Stewart, David Wain, Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo are on the left, I don’t worry about a humor deficit on this side of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, the reason I’m blogging this is that Diane uses my thudding unfunniness as a lead-in to a zany shtick about calling a man who opened a stuck door for her a “sexist bastard.” Her punchline:<\/p>\n

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In a former world (gone with the wind!), the sexist bastard would have been called a gentleman. Oh well.<\/p>\n

How many feminists does it take to shove a stuck door open? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Golly, I open doors for people all the time, and I’ve never had anyone object – not even when I was a Women’s Studies major and opened doors for many hard-core radical feminists. (The kernel of truth buried in Diane’s comment: Feminists – decades ago, when this was an issue – objected to men always<\/em> opening doors for women and never<\/em> vice-versa; it’s silly, if a woman has empty arms and a man has an teetering armload of heavy packages, for him to be the designated door-opener.)<\/p>\n

Diane E., like many conservatives, is stuck in the past (or “in a former world”). The “feminists get offended by door-opening” bit was tired twenty years ago, and has virtually no truth to it today, but to her (and her audience) it probably seems like a fresh and on-point insight. Which is pretty much what’s wrong with anti-feminist thought in general.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if you visit Diane’s blog, make sure to read her summary of the State of the Union<\/a>, which I thought was funny and accurate.<\/p>\n

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