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Top Ten List

I came across by accident, as is often the case, an interesting "top ten" list. The list itself isn't so much intriguing, but some of the quotes and beliefs of some of the occupants of the list, are. The list is "Top Ten Manhaters". When I got down to about the 7th spot on the list, I could hardly imagine what could possibly outdo what I had already read. Here's just a smattering...

#10 Comedienne Joan Rivers: “I need a man to spoil me or I don’t need a man at all"

#8 Actress Sharon Stone: Stone was quoted saying men aren’t masculine enough anymore and that she’s considering dating a woman for a change.

#7 Politician Renuka Chowdhary: "You cannot trust men or your husbands to be sexually responsible."

#5 Author Marilyn French: One of her characters states: "All men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, laws and codes.” In another work she says directly: "Men’s need to dominate women may be based on their own emptiness.

#3 Activist Nikki Craft: She aims to overthrow "male patriarchy". Craft is a follower of former radical feminist Andrea Dworkin -- who once claimed that all heterosexual sex is degrading to women and dooms women to be victims. She actually criticizes men who support her and the feminist cause.

#2 Sally Miller Gearhart: She wants to kill men. At least 10% of us, anyway. In a feminist manifesto, Gearhart calls for females to be given responsibility for the human species. As caretakers, they would then thin down our population by the magic 10% number.

#1 Professor Mary Daly: In 1998, Daly elevated herself to manhating fame at Boston College for refusing to teach men. She was quickly stripped of her tenure. In one of her books she claimed that men drain the life force of women. In an interview, she said "If life is to survive on this planet, it needs to decontaminate itself with a reduction of the male population.”

The full list is here.

I see unfunny people

They don't know they're unfunny. They just walk around like regular people.

I recently watched a TV show that purported to list the "top ten most amazing comedy teams". When they reached number seven in the count-down and failed to mention even one of the true best comedy teams, I wondered if a) they were only listing people who were still alive, and or b) were saving the best for the top honours. But then they mentioned Jack Lemon and Walter Mathau (both deceased). I squirmed uneasily and continued watching.

They mentioned two or three people whom I had never heard of as one half of several teams and when they chose Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as the number one team, I almost had a heart attack. I wish I had had one before they assaulted my senses with their ridiculous list.

With all due respect to some of their choices, how can anyone who has a modicum of understanding and exposure to comedy exclude ALL of the following comedy teams?

Abbot and Costello
Laurel and Hardy
The Three Stooges
The Marx Brothers
The Smothers Brothers
Martin and Lewis

The kicker to this sick story is that in describing one of the teams, the narrator compared them to "a modern-day Laurel and Hardy". If such a comparison is so flattering, how do you justify not having Laurel and Hardy in the list??? Do you realize how many people are involved in putting together a TV show? Hundreds. And this is the best all those comedy geniuses could come up with? Puhlease.

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