Comments on: Oh, Charlotte, you crack me up.

By: sabrina

sabrina — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:00:28 +0000

Perhaps Charlotte and Vox Day could team up to call women stupid. It would be nicer if it was all in one place, then, everyday i could read about how incompetent I am. Here’s Mr. Beale’s opinion of women in science. Very enlightened. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58449

By: schrödinger's cat

schrödinger's cat — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:59:36 +0000

Not plain humour either, but “humor with a serious point”. I’m kind of wondering where the humor is. Where is all that fun she says she’s poking?

She says the article isn’t offensive because it was meant to be humorous. So those sexist statements? Not sexist: funny. But she herself takes those statements seriously. She proves and enlarges on some of them, and if someone agrees with the points she’s made she seems gratified and delighted. That doesn’t much look like she was merely joking around?

I know too little of her to be certain. But it reminds me of those people who say offensive things, and they expect people to agree with them and laugh, because, y’know, the subject itself is inherently funny and/or ridiculous. And then when people take the humourist by the lapels, he’s all “sheesh, can’t you take a joke??”

By: Sabotabby

Sabotabby — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:07:09 +0000

For a supposed humour writer, she sure takes criticism damned personally.

By: gnaddrig

gnaddrig — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:22:36 +0000

Not satire, just plain humour:
I’m not sure whether I’d characterize the piece as satire, but I’d certainly characterize it as humor: my poking fun at the dumb things my sex does.

By: punkass marc

punkass marc — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:12:46 +0000

From the article:

West Lafayette, Ind.: Your idea of fun is to paint a (horribly inaccurate) picture of your sex as stupid?

Charlotte Allen: How about an accurate picture?

What happened to the whole satire thing again?

By: J.Goff

J.Goff — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:27:55 +0000

Yeah, that one was my favorite. I pictured it with the typical shrug and outstretched hands in a Frank Nelson sort of inquiry.

“Is the Poohhpe Geeeeerman?”

By: june

june — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:31:51 +0000

I’m pretty sure Ms. Allen sent that “question” to herself.

By: schrödinger's cat

schrödinger's cat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:02:33 +0000

What if we claim that the angry letters to the Washington Post were just jokes, too?