Friday, 20 April 2012

Women Aren't Funny Fridays

I've been looking through Youtube for examples of what open mic stand up comics do with their hands. I'm naturally fidgety, and in comedy class number one I found out I have a tendency to flail.

I found this video, a day in the life of a female comedian, which I enjoyed, but the comments ranged from histrionic misunderstanding ("but she's being so sexist! To women!") to the more straightforwardly hateful ("women comedians can suck my dick").

It's disheartening to hear that women aren't funny. I'm not a fan of that line. I bet all this history of oppression by men started because some woman came up with an unbelievable small dick joke that was so good it had the same effect as that Monty Python sketch about the joke that makes people die from laughing, and not because men secretly fear that vaginas have teeth.

Maybe I'm not funny. Maybe I should get back in the kitchen. Maybe I should put my bed in the kitchen, along with a birthing pool for when I start my family. I needed to cheer myself up, and demonstrate my commitment. So I've come up with Women Aren't Funny Fridays. Every Friday I'll pick one mean-spirited youtube "joker" and draw what I think the commenter looks like. Here is Week 1!


"Women aren't funny and this isn't funny because it was written by a woman" 



Can't wait til next week!

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