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In article <11871@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>
>  The following article is reprinted (without permission) from the
>Friday 14 Feb 1986 San Francisco Chronicle in its entirety.
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>                    "Behind Jewish Princess Jokes"
>                          by Michael Taylor
>
>  Q: What does a Jewish American Princess make for dinner?
>  A: Reservations.
>
>  A Berkeley professor who studied thousands of Jewish American Princess
>jokes over the past five years has concluded that such jokes are an attack
>on women and feminism.
>
Hmmmm, that's odd.  I love JAP jokes, but the various women I tell them
to invariably love them even more.  The reason I almost always hear from
them is "Oh, yes; I went to school with so many of them and they were
such a joke!"  They see the JAP as almost everything that they themselves
do not want to be:  non-self-sufficient, manipulative, whiny, spoiled,
cold (both in sexual and non-sexual relations), etc. etc.

That is *my* uneducated but well-researched opinion on why both men and
women enjoy JAP jokes -- they are laughing at something that they would
sooner die than be like, yet there are tendencies toward most JAP traits
(as told in the jokes) in every one of us -- yielding one of (if not the)
most important facet of successful humor:  the ability of the audience
to empathize somewhat with the butt of the joke.

Waiting for all of the "speak for yourself!" letters,
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