Carlin joke... funny or sexist?

[Syrinx]

Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion are women that you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place, man?

[EFF BrandyWine]

1. Neither funny nor sexist.

.

[Syrinx]

6. EFF, I've got to ask

Electronic Freedom Foundation?

[Maple]

2. Totally

sexist.

[Semi_subversive]

3. For crying out loud

That line is 30 years old. I think it's from the Class Clown album.

[Syrinx]

5. yeah, I've got the old tapes out tonight

deciding what to toss, and what to mp3

[imax2268]

15. yup...

first time I heard that I was five...

doesn't bother me because I can look past it...

[Booberdawg]

4. Both funny and sexist

[Skittles]

7. DISGUSTING

just f***ing disgusting

[Syrinx]

9. you answered my question

:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. On the one hand I think Carlin's funny

on the other hand he's pretty butt ugly so he's one to talk :D

[Syrinx]

10. he was brilliant in the very early days

Nowadays he's just a curmudgeon. And a boring one at that.

He jumped the shark with that Fox sitcom, after Married With Children one year.

[stanwyck]

17. total agreement

I hadn't seen him in years. Then caught him on some show and was absolutely appalled. He's really disintegrated creatively. Very sad.

[Blue_Chill]

11. Don't know if it's sexist but it isn't funny.

I'm not surprised Carlin is an asshat.

[mitchum]

12. both

[Room101]

13. It's funny and sexist

I love Carlin:)

[VOX]

14. Carlin was funny back when he was a doper. But now? No.

n/t

[Cheswick2.0]

16. sexist and not funny....though some of his stuff is

:shrug:

[MaineDem]

18. Sexist yes

And I remember the line when it was new.

[LTR]

19. One thing about comedy, though...

...is that much of it tends to be 'politically incorrect'. It may shock, it may offend. And it may be very controversial.

A lot of comedy is sometimes what we are thinking, but we don't dare say in public.

If comedy doesn't offend once in a while, the terrorists/neocons have won.

[BiggJawn]

20. Comedy mirrors society, or something like that.

I heard/read that line once. What it meant was that when things are easy, and times are good, comedy and humour tend to be sophomoric and lean towards slapstick. When you have times like now, and the "Nam era", things are grittier, more edgey and humour has a "gallows" quality to it. That line of Carlin's was from the tag end of Viet Nam. that was also the era of guys like Dick Gregory and Lenny Bruce.

But I digress. That line was funny then, and yes, it's sexist.When he first delivered it, Roe v. Wade was new and the battle lines wee still being drawn. the anti-choice forces hadn't organized into RICO-prohibited groups yet. Fact is, there was no RICO at that time...

[Cheswick2.0]

21. I have more respect for self deprecating humor

if he wants to talk about being too ugly to get laid, perhaps he should look in the mirror.
Most of my humor is directed at myself. It is a purposeful choice for me.