[lbo-talk] Re: Dull, dull, dull

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

>--- JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
>
>> The humorlessness charge is used against feminists
>> because it's part of our 
>> job description to be amusing to men and not dare to
>> dabble in the serious; 
>> when we cross these lines we're characterized as
>> humorless, although oddly it's 
>> not counted as humor when we make fun of men.  
>
>I dont doubt that this is true in msny contexts, but I
>also think a lot of feminists are a subset of the
>drab, sad, angry, frustrated, cant put forward a
>positive program, American left.  There is something
>unhealthy about any group that takes itself so damn
>seriously that it can not make fun of itself.
>
>Thomas

Yeah, but I'd say your average Nation writer is more humorless than your 
average feminist.  Shit, they have to rely on a feminist, Katha Pollitt, to liven 
it up.  And where would the Progressive be without Barbara Ehrenreich and 
Molly Ivins?  They make it worth enduring the awful graphics.  Z benefits from 
Lydia Sargent, even.  Where would the left be without these feminists goosing it 
up?  Dull and duller.

Jenny Brown