Per Shakes, I learn that brain dead Christopher Hitchens has written an article called “Why Women Aren’t Funny” that Vanity Fair was crass enough to publish.
I’m not going to skewer him, although skewering he deservies, because Shakes already did. And Amanda, and others as well.
No, I just want to tell this story.
When Arthur was five years old, I was tucking him in. I don’t know what I said that made him laugh, one of the ten thousand things I say that make him laugh (and now that he’s older, we make each other laugh, and stuff gets snorted out the nose way much in our house). And he put his tiny five year old hand on my neck and said
“That’s what Moms are for. To be funny.”
Take that, Snitchens.
