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Originally Posted by Wayfarer
Why? Because he sees eye to eye with your average neo-conservative on one issue?
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I don't think it's the only one. Like I said, if more liberals know about his over the top sexism he probably wouldn't be as popular. I think it's just because he bashes religion a lot and I admit, even I can't resist some of that.
I know he doesn't consider himself pro bush or anything, no Republican dares to associate himself with a guy like Hitchens, like any pundit worth his salt he knows how to present himself as an independent thinker, and admittingly he's less of a bandwagoner than most.
Still a bigoted ******* though.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why people brand him as being some kind of "Bush apologist" and a "neo-con". As recently as this bloody year, he has referred to himself as a Marxist, and though I'd argue that, minding the stances he has taken on certain issues, he is probably not a genuine Marxist, he clearly identifies with the philosophies of the "far left" moreso than any other.
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I never said I considered him a conservative or a non liberal.
But I dunno, being a huge bigot kinda gets in the way of understanding liberalism isn't it?
....Then again there's a lot of bigoted democrats so what do I know?
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I think you missed the point of the article. He never once asserts that women cannot be funny or that there exists not a single funny woman, but basically that present-day society places a far greater amount of pressure on men to be humourous than it does women.
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In other words he's a high class troll.
Seriously, I watched him give interviews about it and he failed to come across with what you're describing, to me he just comes off as a sexist douchebag. If he actually wanted to make a reasonable article about how people pressure men to be funny and not women, which is a reasonable argument a liberal could make, then for the love of god don't call it "why women aren't funny" and then clearly say something as retarded as "women are only funny when they imitate men" or whatever, to call that a mixed message is a severe understatement.
If this is how today's "intellectuals" have to make a point, by clearly trolling the sh*t out of people they disagree with, then it's no wonder the older generation looks down upon us.