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    Cross Post: Okay, Jen. Here Goes: "Stop Being Mean To Women On The Internet"

    My fellow comedian Jen Kirkman is boycotting Twitter until men stop using it as a medium to be awful to her because she’s a woman yet still has the audacity to express her views on occasion. Or more specifically, until her male counterparts speak up against this kind of treatment.

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    Book Excerpt We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy: A Very Oral History

    The first time I ever heard the statement “women aren’t funny” was while reading it in a Christopher Hitchens’s column in the January 2007 issue of Vanity Fair. At the time, I was more confused by it than anything. As a kid, I’d remembered seeing a lot of funny women in...

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