“The “why women aren’t funny” statement Hitchens made years ago is coming into focus that it isn’t that we aren’t funny—it’s that men lack an ability to see life through our experience, & lack the empathy to want to try. In other words, they don’t get the joke & never wanted to.”
This is a good doc on sexism in how female comedians are perceived – although I’ll warn ya that it’s a bit of a downer by the end, as the filmmaker gets disheartened by the prevalence of the belief among male comedians and general public that “women just aren’t funny.”
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