Fabulous conversation! Meghan has a really interesting perspective on some issues that I hadn’t explored so much before. This episode made me think about some things in new ways.
I tend to think gender ideology is so obviously absurd that people deep in it have to kill their sense of humor to go along with it. I knew a woman who actually was the class clown while growing up and people thought she should try stand up comedy. In the early noughties she prided herself on not getting easily offended, would listen to offensive stand up and watched South Park. The she got into gender ideology and it was flip a switch on her sense of humor and she was suddenly in police mode, clamping down on anything she found offensive. It had always stuck in my mind because it was such a complete 180 but I never saw the connection until you pointed it out.
I will say, talking about beautiful people in comedy, I started thinking of Marina Sirtis, most famous for playing Counselor Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation.< Marina Sirtis as a person is hilarious. When I watch her at conventions I think she could make a killing going on a comedy tour and talking about her experiences as an actress because she leaves me in stitches. But in Star Trek she is rather humorless. She's the hot, sexy female character with the low cut outfits. Marina Sirtis has said she would try to inject humor into her role during the run of the series but the directors would tell her to stop it and play it seriously. In the movies they loosened up and allowed her humor to shine a bit in a few of them. Marina Sirtis herself has said, in a way that is vastly more funny than I am summing up, that when her character's cleavage was covered her IQ in the show shot up a few hundred points and she was allowed to loosen up. What I also find interesting was I knew some men who said they liked her better in the movies, even wearing a full uniform that wasn't showing her cleavage, because she was more relaxed and funny. Whether they were telling they were telling the truth or whether they just didn't want to piss off all the woman in the room with them is unknown, lol.
But basically I do think beautiful people can be funny but they are discouraged from it
Fabulous conversation! Meghan has a really interesting perspective on some issues that I hadn’t explored so much before. This episode made me think about some things in new ways.
I tend to think gender ideology is so obviously absurd that people deep in it have to kill their sense of humor to go along with it. I knew a woman who actually was the class clown while growing up and people thought she should try stand up comedy. In the early noughties she prided herself on not getting easily offended, would listen to offensive stand up and watched South Park. The she got into gender ideology and it was flip a switch on her sense of humor and she was suddenly in police mode, clamping down on anything she found offensive. It had always stuck in my mind because it was such a complete 180 but I never saw the connection until you pointed it out.
I will say, talking about beautiful people in comedy, I started thinking of Marina Sirtis, most famous for playing Counselor Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation.< Marina Sirtis as a person is hilarious. When I watch her at conventions I think she could make a killing going on a comedy tour and talking about her experiences as an actress because she leaves me in stitches. But in Star Trek she is rather humorless. She's the hot, sexy female character with the low cut outfits. Marina Sirtis has said she would try to inject humor into her role during the run of the series but the directors would tell her to stop it and play it seriously. In the movies they loosened up and allowed her humor to shine a bit in a few of them. Marina Sirtis herself has said, in a way that is vastly more funny than I am summing up, that when her character's cleavage was covered her IQ in the show shot up a few hundred points and she was allowed to loosen up. What I also find interesting was I knew some men who said they liked her better in the movies, even wearing a full uniform that wasn't showing her cleavage, because she was more relaxed and funny. Whether they were telling they were telling the truth or whether they just didn't want to piss off all the woman in the room with them is unknown, lol.
But basically I do think beautiful people can be funny but they are discouraged from it