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Comedians poke fun at the absurd, unreasonable aspects of our thought, our behaviour and our societies so it is tempting to assume that they are rational themselves.
While satire is often controversial, it has become increasingly common for it to be accused of bigotry where none exists.
“Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, very gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
There is a tendency for many feminists to essentialize gender victimization into simplistic binary camps – of good and evil – even though privilege is an under-developed concept.
Don’t throw the word ‘misogyny’ at every man with an obtuse opinion. Do so, and you will denude the word of all its meaning and all its power.