Women CAN be funny

While I don't entirely agree with Hitchens that women AREN'T funny, I do have to say that whenever I hear a female stand up comic, I always go in to it with a negative idea of how it will turn out. There are many female comics I like, but they really have to convince me because I find that any "minority" comic always plays up what makes them different too much, and it becomes annoying. Now I say "minority" in quotes because I don't mean the word in the sense of just race, I mean it in the sense of the number of comics we see. Women are the majority in the US, but in stand up comedy, they are the minority. That's what I mean. Women, really overweight comics, very tall comics, or anyone like that tends to cater WAY too much of their set to talking about the obvious features. I just find it annoying when jokes are all about being a woman, being grossly overweight, being freakishly tall, being a minority race, being from another country. Stand up comedy is definitely about personal experiences, I expect a certain amount of jokes to be of those types, but after a few jokes it gets annoying. We get it, you are "xxxx". I prefer clever jokes, jokes that are extremely offensive, jokes that make people uncomfortable to laugh, that kind of stuff. Now when it comes to female actresses who do comedy, I don't have any sort negative feelings about it initially. Same goes for all those "minority" types I described above. They are reading scripts and playing a character, so it doesn't make a difference to me if they obsess over one thing or another, it's just the way the part was written for them.

A point that Hitchens made that I agree with is that the reason women aren't inherently funny because they don't have to be. I would say most guys don't look for a girl that is funny, but instead a girl who has a sense of humor; one that can take jokes, joke along, and doesn't take anything too seriously. Guys, on the other hand, need to be funny and charming to attract a woman. My mom told me when I was a kid that if I want to be the perfect man for a woman, I need to be funny and know how to cook. Luckily for me, one of those things comes naturally, the other skill has yet to be refined. The biggest insult I think that I can ever hear anyone say is "You're not funny". Make fun of my looks, my knowledge, my skills at something, but for the love of god, please don't tell me I am unfunny. I think this is true for most guys, and I think this is very unimportant for most females. I don't think most care if they are funny at all, they don't try to be funny, but call a girl fat or make fun of the way she looks, and it will be hell to pay. Obviously I am generalizing all women, and that's not always accurate, but it SEEMS at least that's a safe blanket statement to make about the genders.