This is Mallory Ortberg, and she's read some terrible books lately.
SDGundamXsays...

...wtf did I just watch? I'm assuming these are parodied lines from actual novels (with presumably male authors)? I don't get the subtext here though... as if female novelists don't ever write shitty cliched lines in their fiction?

eric3579says...

I wish i understood the humor i'm missing. The audience seems to find it quite funny. I feel left out. I assume im not read enough or maybe just ignorant regarding whatever it is she's on about.

(edit) Just saw SDGundamX comment. Now i don't feel so bad.

newtboysays...

Seemed like nothing more than vapid male bashing aimed at a particular tiny subset of males, with lots of giggles at the 'dumb men'.
I think we aren't getting it because we aren't part of the 'she woman man haters club'. I think if you said to those women "a man and a woman walk into a bar...the man gets shot." they would erupt in applause and laughter.

articiansays...

I had a hard time trying to describe this. My initial thought was to suggest she just got dumped, but I don't want to be sexist.

Either way I laughed a lot simply because of the stereotype she paints.

newtboysaid:

Seemed like nothing more than vapid male bashing aimed at a particular tiny subset of males, with lots of giggles at the 'dumb men'.
I think we aren't getting it because we aren't part of the 'she woman man haters club'. I think if you said to those women "a man and a woman walk into a bar...the man gets shot." they would erupt in applause and laughter.

oritteroposays...

I think the in joke there is that they all know that most book reviews don't take female novelists seriously, and that there are some male novelists who get a free pass from reviewers who really don't deserve it.

Only wilful disregard can hide the need to publish more women - http://gu.com/p/4hepd/stw

So what she's doing is parodying some of the award-winning loved by (male) reviewers authors who aren't nearly as well received by the (at least 50% female) reading audience and who claim that the public just don't know quality when they see it.

If the gender imbalance is ever resolved, the jokes would still work just without the "male" but with "award winning" attached instead.

articiansaid:

I had a hard time trying to describe this. My initial thought was to suggest she just got dumped, but I don't want to be sexist.

Either way I laughed a lot simply because of the stereotype she paints.

bobknight33says...

sexist

Some of the most stupid talking ever taped.

Don't think she can date males for any length of time. Once they start hearing this crap they dump her.

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