July 4 at 4:35 pm
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"As recently as 2004 the veteran comedian Sandra Bernhard could be found railing against the fact that women weren't "allowed" to do social commentary. "I think it's the last gasp of the white male, the patriarchy that excludes us," she told Ms Magazine. "They are digging their heels in harder than ever." But this is the first generation to be succesful at it and accepted for it. So nearly half a decade on from Bernhard's complaints there are, finally, some scuff marks where those dug-in masculine heels once were. The women may not have won the ensuing dust-up but at least they share the field with the men. Journalist Christopher Hitchens still refuses to cede ground - last year, he wrote an essay in Vanity Fair magazine entitled Why Women Aren't Funny. But he is in the minority. Women, it is agreed, are funny." - Jason Toney
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hitchens is not the only one who thinks women are not funny... :( - edythe