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From: SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i)
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Subject: Re: JAP jokes
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 17:18:58 EST
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> > Gene Ward Smith:
> >>  A Berkeley professor who studied thousands of Jewish American Princess
> >>jokes over the past five years has concluded that such jokes are an attack
> >>on women and feminism.
> 
> Curtis Jackson:
> >Hmmmm, that's odd.  I love JAP jokes, but the various women I tell them
> >to invariably love them even more. ...
> >
> >That is *my* uneducated but well-researched opinion on why both men and
> >women enjoy JAP jokes -- they are laughing at something that they would
> >sooner die than be like, yet there are tendencies toward most JAP traits
> >(as told in the jokes) in every one of us -- yielding one of (if not the)
> >most important facet of successful humor:  the ability of the audience
> >to empathize somewhat with the butt of the joke.
> 
> It seems to me that you're actually making the point above, even though
> that doesn't appear to be what you intend.  I suspect that the women
> you describe are laughing at tendencies that they see in themselves
> that they would like to *deny*.  Just because you find women laughing
> at sexist jokes doesn't mean that they (the jokes and the women) aren't
> sexist.  Some of the most anti-X jokes I've ever heard have been told
> by Xs.  For *all* X (that tell jokes).
> 

And there will be those who claim that tellers of JAP jokes are anti-semetic.
However, one should note that you don't have to be Jewish to be a JAP and that
"P" stands for Prince as well as Princess...