#komoidios

ℂ || STARTER CALL -- @komoidios

"Relax, no one's looking" -komoidios

// “Comedy can take the ideals and pressures of a patriarchal masculinty that fits only the male, elite, ruling class and attempts to say that the “loser” by this ideal is not really a loser. Comedy is a genre of reversal, turning things upside down and mocking hegemony. That is true comedy (though, nowadays, it seems much of comedy doesn’t understand that, but those doesn’t really count and don’t factor into this discussion). There is an acknowledge that the hegemonic male ideals and even patriarchy itself is quite ridiculous. It is a reclamation of the ordinary male, at best being inclusive of specifically those that the patriarchal construction of masculinity exlcudes, and sidesteps the patriarchal contract and pressures to succeed in its limited and unattainable framework. Comedy becomes a way of testing and working through these pressures to succeed.”