Diane E. isn’t amused by my anti-feminist light bulb jokes. That’s okay; conservatives who send lefties “fuck you fuck you fuck you” emails aren’t my target audience. It’s a sad fact of life: generally righties don’t find lefty political humor funny (and vice-versa). So long as folks like Tina Faye, Jon Stewart, David Wain, Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo are on the left, I don’t worry about a humor deficit on this side of the political spectrum.

Anyhow, the reason I’m blogging this is that Diane uses my thudding unfunniness as a lead-in to a zany shtick about calling a man who opened a stuck door for her a “sexist bastard.” Her punchline:

In a former world (gone with the wind!), the sexist bastard would have been called a gentleman. Oh well.

How many feminists does it take to shove a stuck door open?

Golly, I open doors for people all the time, and I’ve never had anyone object - not even when I was a Women’s Studies major and opened doors for many hard-core radical feminists. (The kernel of truth buried in Diane’s comment: Feminists - decades ago, when this was an issue - objected to men always opening doors for women and never vice-versa; it’s silly, if a woman has empty arms and a man has an teetering armload of heavy packages, for him to be the designated door-opener.)

Diane E., like many conservatives, is stuck in the past (or “in a former world”). The “feminists get offended by door-opening” bit was tired twenty years ago, and has virtually no truth to it today, but to her (and her audience) it probably seems like a fresh and on-point insight. Which is pretty much what’s wrong with anti-feminist thought in general.

On the other hand, if you visit Diane’s blog, make sure to read her summary of the State of the Union, which I thought was funny and accurate.

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