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Yet when I read “Why Women Aren’t Funny” I hear the voice of a bully, an intimidator, a dictator of paternalism. And while he was wholly anti-religion, he still approaches gender with the black-white dichotomy of any cable TV zealot—or hackneyed standup comic, for that matter. And how is his message–that women on the whole cannot be as funny as their male counterparts—not a tool of censorship, an attack on the free expression of women trying to make it in the business?
I’ve had the pleasure of working with some budding Chris Hitchens types in college, and I found that behind the bravado and snark is a lonely, insecure man who is definitely not getting laid as much as he suggests. His was a bald-faced interpretation of the world at face value, with paternalism as the righteous status quo. Some contrarian.
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