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From: tomp@amiga.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women
Subject: Re: JAP jokes
Message-ID: <740@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 22:35:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 22:35:49 1986
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In article <529@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
>> 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).

I think it's becoming clear that most of the jokee's here are laughing
because the jokes are funny, not for the ambitious theories offered.
Maybe we should assume that the analysts are twits and/or desperate for
a thesys topic. I'm tired of people's attempts to reduce the humor in the
world.