"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
~ Martin Niemoller
Hysteria Reconsidered: Are Women (Finally) Funny?
Submitted by Westernerd on Sat, 2011-10-08 02:00
"Joan Rivers was the first comedienne to turn standard-issue self-deprecation into a proto-punk, stare-down dare: 'I’m here, I’m ugly, get used to it.' But Rivers was performing way before these women, and their mothers, were born. What forces unleashed and mainstreamed today’s impetuous, un-blushable broads?"
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