Tom Martin seeks volunteer crew for documentary exposing women's sexist humour

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-11-05 17:01

Details here. Excerpt:

'Could women be as funny as men? Researcher/presenter, marketer, editor and film crew wanted for a two day shoot as part of this controversial zero budget feature-length documentary investigating the differences between women's and men's joke-making styles, motivations, and abilities.

In early January, we will be filming this two day street experiment in central London, interviewing male and female passers by to see how sexist their improvised one liners are when joking about the other sex, and to see just how funny they are too. We expect to find that women's jokes about men are three to five times more hostile and sexist than men's jokes about women, and less funny too.'

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Ed: The Tom Martin seeking a film crew is the same Tom Martin as discussed here.

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Can I extend this?

I have quite a few friends who are gay and when I would go out with them (when I was single), they have taken me to drag shows.

I have enjoyed myself when watching Drag Queens. They are funny but I could never say exactly why.

Then, one time, I had to attend a medical conference in battlefield surgery hosted by the US Advanced Research Projects Agency. Most of the attendees were either surgeons or generals. And you should have seen these doctors and generals strut. I knew I had seen this strut before. At drag queen shows.

It got me to thinking that on some level, Drag Queens are not mocking women. For let's be honest: no day-to-day woman looks that extravagent. Drag Queen shows mock men, and our self-delusions and self-importance (for all men are that sometimes and we need a shakeup). They are fun and I like what they do.

But have you ever seen a Drag King show (they are put on mostly be Lesbians)? No, they do not dress up in extravagent ways. They dress up as your day to day man. And the mocking is malicious and vicious. I went once and can never go again. There is only anger and hatred there.

In my opinion, drag queens love men and love women.
Drag Kings hate men.

And for the record, I think most women can never be as funny as men. They take themselves too seriously and refuse to let themselves fall from the pedestal. The few women who are funny - Ellen, RoseAnn Barr, Phyllis Diller - all made fun of themselves (and when they do, they are amazing - but rare). That is the key to humor: to hide your self mockery in a joke about the other. I think the core of most mens' jokes about women - not the vile kind, but the common kind - is self mockery.

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Submitted by bronxman on Tue, 2013-11-05 18:04