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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.women
Subject: Re: JAP jokes
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 02:27:44 EST
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In article <12085@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> spp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Stephen P Pope) 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.
>
>Are you sure about this????  Unless I'm mistaken, the professor
>is Alan Dundes and I really doubt he would come to such a
>conclusion.  I've read a couple descriptions of his recent
>JAP joke work and none of them referred to this conclusion.
>

   Of *course* I'm not sure of it -- I read it in the Chronicle! In fact,
if you bothered to read the original posting, you noticed it was *nothing
but* a quote from there. I leave you to work out the implications.

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
"The *evident* character of this defective cognition of which mathematics
is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on
the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore
of a kind that philosophy must spurn." -- G. W. F. Hegel