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whatwhatwhat replied to your post: whatwhatwhat replied to your post: Super…

i…don’t see a problem?

I suppose it’s subjective. I guess I’m just thinking of last year during Iggy and the Stooges’ set, where there were a bunch of sweat factories around me with no shirts but also like a million elbows and I couldn’t move because then they’d knock the girl with the broken arm behind me off the fence she was sitting on. And a couple of youths also standing behind me were clinging to me and just kind of dance-cowering.

But it was a ton of fun other than that.

whatwhatwhat replied to your post: Super conflicted about this Riot Fest lineup.

Same. Still going to go.

I guess it’s just the first wave of bands they announced, so it’ll probably get better with the other waves. If nothing else, it’s like the perfect time for a festival. It’s still warm out, but not so warm that people think it’s okay to just take their clothing off. Although that does still happen.

Super conflicted about this Riot Fest lineup.

but it’s wasn’t entirely on topic. Anyway, whenever this conversation rolls around, there’s usually some discussion that branches off from that about how attractive people can’t be funny. And there’s usually some horseshit elaboration about how being funny comes from pain and how (“conventionally”) attractive people live perfect lives.

And weirdly enough, this seems to go unchallenged. Because, let’s be honest with ourselves, this is about sexism far more than it’s about attractiveness. People talk about how attractive men can’t be funny, sure, but it’s almost always discussed in reference to women.

It seems that this stems from our culture dictating to men that they should categorize all women by sexual qualities. So regardless of the fact that they’ve never met and these women wouldn’t sleep with these men, they’re still thinking of them first and foremost by whether or not they could have sex. And since comedy’s an intellect form of art, they’re only able to accept it in women they see as not sexually viable. Because if they were to acknowledge that the women they’re attracted to are funny, they wouldn’t be able to reduce them to objects so easily.

The Internet.

(comment from “Can Men Be Funny?” by Ellie Kemper for GQ)

I want to believe with all of my heart that this was written by a real man who was being sincere in his attempts to mansplain comedy to a female comedian’s comedic piece in a magazine issue dedicated entirely to comedy.

(via bthny)

“Many of us spend a long time developing and honing our comedic skills as part of our attempt to attract a mate.” This dude has himself confused with a bluebird.

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Two years ago, I hung out with a friend who I knew from grade/middle school who I hadn’t seen since middle school. We went to see Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World and smoked weed out of an empty Coke can. And then today he had a baby. Everything’s weird and I thought you should know.

goodbyemisery replied to your post: I’ve had a concept for a really good Chinatown…

you can’t just tempt us like this, though. that’s even more butt!

By popular demand…

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown. Although at this point, it may be Armour Square. I can never keep all these neighborhoods straight.

I’ve had a concept for a really good Chinatown joke floating around for a while and I could have sworn I already made it, but I can’t find it in my Tumblr archive. I’m tempted to repost it, but then I know someone would reply, “Nice NEW COMPLETELY FRESH joke, you butt.” And I don’t know how I could recover from being called a butt.

Tumblr Radar keeps showing a picture from a Tumblr user named moralnihilism. I can’t come up with a clever way to express how irritated I am.

Dreams really do come true.

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