tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post6752973953895458106..comments2023-10-24T20:47:13.885+05:30Comments on The Spaniard In The Works: Briused and humourlessSpace Barhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-51736468340733056822013-01-31T11:50:48.924+05:302013-01-31T11:50:48.924+05:30madam i seem to have been away from here for too l...madam i seem to have been away from here for too long. yes, i want to be prickly sensitive too. i am giving a talk later today about this (among other things), alarmingly, to young people who seem to think that we ought to conform to the norm, because, we are, after all, women. just women. Preeti Aghalayam aka kbpmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11829919187093167561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-31496440970544075302013-01-27T10:25:23.331+05:302013-01-27T10:25:23.331+05:30Anon: Not sure this is addressed to me? Regardless...Anon: Not sure this is addressed to me? Regardless...<br /><br />There are certain kinds of jokes that are made, specifically by men, that cast women as being especially humourless. I think that's what Pipuxixu was referring to.<br /><br />Humour is often wielded as a weapon, don't you think, to aid someone in their bullying. You can't call them out if you want to be seen as having a sense of humour. In some cases the bullying is gender-specific and therefore, I suppose, gender-assigned humourlessness.Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-1553283697237114702013-01-27T09:06:41.393+05:302013-01-27T09:06:41.393+05:30Why put a gender to being humorless about some thi...Why put a gender to being humorless about some things? I am a guy and if anyone had sent me an email with a joke about rape, I would react (or not) in a similar way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-71484647212771300222013-01-25T16:18:02.838+05:302013-01-25T16:18:02.838+05:30I think they are going to throw me out of my offic...I think they are going to throw me out of my office if I go Gah! one more time.pi-pu-xi-xuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06659224288303462502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-64551519080965995602013-01-25T15:01:39.094+05:302013-01-25T15:01:39.094+05:30If you love me please don't link to anything m...If you love me please don't link to anything more today that will have me tearing my hair out. I can't afford wigs.<br /><br />Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-38346029582160178432013-01-25T14:35:56.316+05:302013-01-25T14:35:56.316+05:30But Dala, aren't we all humourless feminists?
...But Dala, aren't we all humourless feminists?<br /><br /> Even Afterellen and Dorothy Snarker recommended this "satire" and asked us not to be unfunny feminists, because criticising Tina Fey, Oprah or Lena Dunham is so bog-standard humourless feminist of us. <br /><br />http://www.afterellen.com/2013/01/11-awesome-women-who-do-feminism-wrong-way<br />pi-pu-xi-xuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06659224288303462502noreply@blogger.com