The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.
What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.
Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.
To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.