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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
One of the tropes of our cultural mythology is that a man wearing a dress is funny and generally humiliating--something one would do only if desperate. Does this desperation cause Thor's response to the theft of his hammer?
Why is a woman in a men's clothing not funny at first glance in the same way?
Are women inherently funny because we are feminine?
Or is masculine "normal" and feminine is "other"?
Here are some comedy examples of men dressed as women:
This controversy came out in a creative session on a cartoon show for adults--could they make fun of a woman getting splattered with dog drool? Would be be as funny as if it were a male character?
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