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The Importance of Humor in the Comedy Circuit
One of the big the first big female comedians is philis diller she goes back to the 60s and perhaps even before that but her whole shtick was you know about um she had this big wild hair basically. This is all open to really classical feminist theory indeed like debauvoir, jane riviere's famous psychoanalytic essay about her femininity is a sort of masquerade. These women who want to adopt the role of active subjects they have to performatively exit their status as objects of desire and object just object of viewing and contemplation also we have to laugh at the men like this is very important men get very upset when women don't laugh at their jokes