Regardless, self-deprecating humor is hardly breaking new comedic ground.
Neither is talking about sexual politics.
But then again, not everyone is a comedian.
Or a fan of comedy.
Take, for example, Professor Nicole Hemmer.
As such, she was given space on CNN to pen an Op-Ed about this very topic.
Seinfeld hints at this, coupling the collapse of hierarchy with the demise of dominant masculinity.
Other comedians have been more explicit.
Masculinity by any definition is disappearing, he writes on the opening page.
By masculinity, he means both toughness and male supremacy.
But this is not true.
He bluntly tells his readers that women are dumber, softer and less funny than men.
Like Seinfeld, Carolla imagines parts of the 20th century as a better time.
Men provided, fixed the car, patched the roof, and warded off intruders with a baseball bat.
But thanks to developments like the feminist movement … men became metrosexuals.
Maybe what we need these days is more sex and less gender.
Though he insists he supports gay rights, he does so fretfully: Im open-minded but closed-behinded.
First of all, Prof. Hennan sounds like she’s a real hoot.
The kind of gal you’d love to have over to your cookout to shoot the shit with.
Second, you have to appreciate her hustle here.
Combined, the three comics she mentions have been working clubs for probably close to 100 years.
Seinfeld’s name is the title of the most appreciated sitcom of all time.
Carolla is one of the true pioneers of the podcast space.
And Maher has done literally hundreds of episodes of his various talk shows.
All are bestselling authors.
But what they truly have in common is that their audiences arewrongfor laughing at their material.
That’s what we have Vanderbilt department heads for.
Finally, I realize reading this back that I myself have not been the least bit funny.
So I’ll leave you with this.
From Carolla’s aforementioned “In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks.”
Which has the subtitle, “… And other Complaints from an Angry, Middle-Aged White Guy.”
Which I’ve read twice all the way through.
And which came out in 2010, so do the math.
She’s not even supposed to be in your Fave Five.
When’s the last time you begged your best friend for a blow job?
I don’t believe these guys.
Your best friend is the guy you go to to bitch about your wife getting fat.
Plus you might’t brag to your wife about the handy you got in the champagne room.
That might not be the sort of gender role commentary that is university professor-approved.
But as amanosphere cri de coeurit’s fecking hilarous.
We’re all set on that, thanks.
