[lbo-talk] maybe men aren't funny either

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 3 06:35:07 PST 2007


[the normally unremarkable Alessandra Stanley may be onto something here]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/arts/television/03stan.html? _r=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin&oref=slogin>

Male Misery Just Loves Female Company By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

Time magazine shocked America by asking “Is God Dead?” on its cover in 1966. Vanity Fair is now needling the nation with Christopher Hitchens’s essay “Why Women Aren’t Funny.”

It could also be that most men are not so funny, either, and women are just better at flattery and fake laughter.

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