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

[andie nachgeborenen]

Maybe, but radicals of all stripes get the
humorlessness charge. A while back someome mentioned
Ninotchka, advertised "Garbo laughs!," and the whole
premise is that Commies are grimly puritanical, while
capitalists have fun. Given historical facts about
left (in the broad sense) culture, there may be some
truth to that. The left, including feminists,s pernds
a lot of time being mad and taking itself very
seriously. Also atacking the assumptions that make a
lot of ugly humor funny. Now, there's only some truth
to it. There are left currents that are wildly
wonderfully funny and loose and fun. ANd evens ome
commie currents. Marx, for one, is a very funny
writer. jks

--- joand315 <joand315 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thomas Seay wrote:
> 
> > --- 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.
> 
> Here's a funny.
>
http://www.anntelnaes.com/thumbnail%20images.1/images/SixChix101801LadyInShoe.jpg
> 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > =====
> > <<You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
> > So let's do it like they do it on the Discovery
> Channel>>
> > 
> > Bloodhound Gang, "The Bad Touch"
> > 
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