Comments on: Vultures

By: vegkitty

vegkitty — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:52:15 +0000

@rodriguez

I read the Freud text for a “Jews in American Comedy” course about a year ago. It’s filled with sexist jokes, unsurprising since it’s, you know, Freud. I thought the whole thing was more analytical, though. Freud wasn’t necessarily telling jokes in the way Letterman does, but instead saying, “these are the kinds of jokes people tell… why are they funny?”

By: Liz N

Liz N — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:50:53 +0000

Well, great. We’ve now gone from “hey, good! someone’s talking about how joking about rape hurts young women!” to “Sarah Palin’s latest idiot crusade.”

I’m worried this is going to make it even harder to bring up objections to comments like the ones Letterman made. I can see it now, “oh, don’t go all Sarah Palin on me.”

By: rodriguez

rodriguez — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:39:27 +0000

Dahlia Lithwik covered this in Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2220710/ She mentioned Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. I like Freud, and was about to visit the library, but drew back a little when she said that the book itself is full of sexist jokes.

Any harpies read it?

By: Spark

Spark — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:14:57 +0000

This “protest” (I think there are like 15 people?) was a flashback to the teabagging/Palin rallies for me too. Who are these people?? The ugliness is just stunning. There’s some kind of psychological explanation here.