As you may have heard, Christopher Hitchens – writer, drinker, atheist, shit-stirrer – died the other day. He’s gotten tributes from people all over the political spectrum. Over on The Spearhead, the fellows are paying tribute to his life. Well, not so much his life as to his opinion that women just aren’t funny – apparently their vaginas get in the way, or something.
Here a fellow named Rocco offers his fond remembrances of the man:
I applaud him and wish him to be considered by the big man upstairs to have done the world a service by publically opposing the political machine that is feminism by telling a simple truth.
Woman aren’t funny and men do alot of the great stuff they do like music, art and war to impress women.
Maybe this is why women will never invent anything, why bother.
Twenty upvotes and one downvote for that. Presumably that one downvote is from God, who’s probably spent the last couple of days just going around downvoting anything positive said about Hitchens.
Keyster elaborated further:
His point being that not only do women not need to be funny to attract men, they don’t need to do anything else but simply be women; dress nicely, wear a little make up and perfume – – pleasant personality or the ability to engage in substantive conversation is completely optional.
Everything men strive for is to attract more women.
Everything women strive for is to be more like men.
See the conflict?
Attila added this:
This Cuntry has become so PC- that it couldn’t produce someone like Hitchens- as much as I may disagree with some of his views. He had a functioning mind- and an evidently rigorous education. Can anyone name anybody like him in the public arena? The fact he could throw words like “dyke” around with ease in the middle of his perorations shows a great deal of confidence (he wouldn’t let himself be bullied).
Hitch, this part of your legacy lives on!
But it’s a little-noticed comment from Nutz that highlights Hitch’s most impressive accomplishment:
Well, he was drunk in a lot of his interviews. Personally I thought he was great and one of the things that made him remarkable–he’d be drunk in an interview or debate and still soundly spank the other person with his wit.
Whether you loved him or hated him, agreed with him or disagreed with him, you’ve got to admit: he somehow managed to accomplish more while staggeringly drunk than most of us accomplish stone-cold sober. And that’s something, I guess.
Women aren’t funny….the ladies here make me laugh every time.
How much of an asshole do you have to be to talk about “the big man upstairs” when paying tribute to a famous atheist? It’s incredibly disrespectful.
Jeez. When believers die I don’t talk about how their soul doesn’t exist anymore. That dude at the Spearhead could extend the same courtesy.
I’m an atheist woman. I disagreed with Hitch over many things, including his ‘Women Aren’t Funny’ spiel. However, the amount I disagreed with him paled in comparison to how much I stood with him. He spoke out against the abuses of misogynistic, Abrahamic religions and other misogynistic cultural practices. For that I applaud and mourn him.
It figures that the many in the manosphere are zeroing in on the few of his more sexist blunders. Douchenozzles.
Tell that to Betty White, Joan Rivers, Tina Fey, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Dumont, Carole Lombard…
“How much of an asshole do you have to be to talk about “the big man upstairs” when paying tribute to a famous atheist? “
Bahahahha! Epic fail!
This is hysterical. MRAs are constantly whining that “women” and/or “feminists” spend all of their time blaming men for everything. And yet, all I can see is a tiny, bitter group of men who view the entire world through a woman-hating lens. Never miss an opportunity to stick it to women, no matter how tangential the subject.
I must admit to no small affection for Hitchens, despite his more objectionable views in regards to war and Islam, for example (I hadn’t even heard about the “women aren’t funny” stuff until recently). I think that turnabout may be fair play in Hitch’s case, though, Ozy:
This video just makes me smile. And according to @almightygod’s twitter, Hitchens has convinced him that he doesn’t exist, so we may have a “Towing Jehovah” situation on our hands soon.
i don’t know anything about Christopher Hitchens, but some of my friends are fans I know. I’m a woman and have been told somewhat often that I am funny or “you crack me up” etc sometimes by men but more often by women. So maybe my humor appeals more to women because it comes from an experience of a woman. I assume though that unless the majority of men find someone funny it doesn’t count cause women’s opinions don’t count. Also yeah way to go MRA guy for talking about “the big man upstairs” in regards to a famous atheist is amusing in it’s cluelessness.
Never was a Hitch fan, and absolutely could not stomach his Iraq war stance or his views on women’s humor.
Tell that to Betty White, Joan Rivers, Tina Fey, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Dumont, Carole Lombard…
…Wanda Sykes, Elvira Kurt, Margaret Cho, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Madeline Kahn, Maria Bamford, Sarah Haskins…
Carol Burnett!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sykes, Cho and Bamford aren’t funny. Betty White is hysterical though.
OTOH, if I am forced to watch the three Stooges, I don’t crack even the tiniest hint of a smile (they seem to be threatening to bring them back/remake or something?).
YOu know, it might just be that “humor” and what one finds funny is subjective.
Lucille Ball
I never was a fan of The Three Stooges either.
I was a fan of Christopher Hitchens because I’m atheist, although I completely disagreed with him about Iraq and I didn’t know about his view on women sense of humor.
I don’t understand why the Spearhead crowd praise him, because in the video where he says that women are not funny, he says that a man need to be funny to seduce a woman and otherwise he’s evolutionary failure. Since women laugh at them instead of laughing with them, the guys at the Spearhead are an evolutionary failure.
This ass was an Islamophobe, warmongering, entitled, imperialist, misogynist ass wipe. He’s only being lionized because of his love of media ubiquity. Enough people knew of him not because he was good, but because he was highly visible.
If you want to read some actual good writing, thought and critique try Tony Judt. That man, who recently died of ALS, is a towering genius in comparison. His final book of essays is entitled “Ill Fares The Land”, and a semi-posthumous collaboration between him and historian Tim Snyder is coming out this year.
I don’t have much respect for Hitchens. I read God Is Not Great, and although I agreed with the premise, I thought he came across as a self-absorbed asshole…and not in a fun, charming way.
That said, the debate about whether the Catholic Church is a force for good he did with Stephen Fry (they were on the same side, against a Bishop and right-wing politician) was wonderful to watch. Firmly recommend checking it out.
I also have to respect what he did about his views on waterboarding. He insisted that isn’t wasn’t torture. To back that up, he had it done on himself. After discovering how horrific the practice was first-hand, he proclaimed that it is definitely torture and should be banned. I’d like to see some other supporters of “enhanced interrogation” try to test their views like that.
“The Golden Girls.” Oh, I forgot, they were all over 50 and had no “SMV.” What was I thinking?!
B_don, no one gives a single fuck about what you think is funny.
You know why women don’t laugh at the Three Stooges?
(pause for effect)
Because they aren’t funny.
(I love that joke.)
Henry Rollins
Now that is a man and a free thinker.
The “women aren’t funny” essay only got dumber when, after being bombarded with counterarguments, Hitchens published a follow-up essay stating that, okay, some women are funny, but only the ones who are ugly, fat, old, gay, or Jewish.
So what he actually meant was, “women I want to fuck aren’t funny.” Which I’m sure was true, since he had a crap sense of humor. Except for getting waterboarded–that was hilarious.
I mean, the noises.
(If I speak ill of the dead, it’s because it’s what he would have wanted.)
Once again, Brandon hath declared who is funny. How would we ever know what is funny and what isn’t without his manly male guidance? I will adjust my viewing habits accordingly.