Oh, um ... that's neat.

Your Score: Huffleclaw!

You scored 4% Slytherin, 48% Ravenclaw, 28% Gryffindor, and 44% Hufflepuff!

You might belong in Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal

These patient Hufflepuffs are true

And unafraid of toil;

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,

If you've a ready mind,

Where those of wit and learning,

Will always find their kind.


In this instance, it would be prudent for you to make your own decision between the two! After all, as wise Albus Dumbledore says, "It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

Link: The Sorting Hat Test written by leeannslytherin on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I don't feel very Hufflepuff, to be honest ... I'm kind of a jerk. So ... yeah, I'd go for Ravenclaw on the Sorting Hat.

So am I too good for it or do I just not get it?

"I don't like it when girls do disgusting things. Girls will sometimes come up and do something disgusting and I am like, 'Urgh!' Girls shouldn't do that kind of thing. They should leave that stuff to the guys." - Johnny Knoxville

This whole quote is sort of explainable put in the context that he gets women who come up to him and hit him and, well, I can understand him being ticked off. But it's made me think about something.

There seems to be this weird mentality among creators that women are both "too good" to like crude humor but in a way "too dumb" to get it. Kevin Smith, as much as I like him, seems to be an advocate of this mentality. I remember on the Clerks II DVD he made some sort of, "Yeah, we have, like ... three female fans, and that's it." And I'm just thinking, "I was AT the second Stash Bash. There were more than three women in my section, and I'm assuming a huge amount more women who won the whole contest. They can't ALL have entered it for their husbands." And there's definitely more than three women asking him questions on the Evening DVDs.

And yet while he considered his "dick and fart joke movies" above women's notice, and also said in his introduction to the first Twisted Toyfare trade that "No woman would ever involve herself with this" ... he was also singing Rosario Dawson's phrases for being a rare geek girl (and a pretty geek girl! She's a fucking unicorn!).

It seems like this happens a lot with creators who are also into crude humor. When Trey Parker and Matt Stone used to talk about their fans, they always used the word "boys", even though I could probably name more female South Park fans off the top of my head than male South Park fans, and yet they would say in an offhand comment how "Somehow fat women do the best Cartman impressions." I read an interview from a few years ago where one of the head producers on the Simpsons said the show was "guy humor" and that the Marge and Lisa episodes were negligible and how women really "brought down" the camaraderie of the writer's table. (The female interviewer was not amused.)

But ... the thing is, these creators KNOW they have female fans. They've seen them. They've talked to them. You could say they're a minority ... but they really seem to be a significant one. Why all the insistence that they're not only not there, but that they're too good ... which probably means "too prissy and stuck up" to get it.

It's just frustrating, because there was a time when ... well, any of these people's jobs would have been my dream job. It seems to send the message that women don't belong in the clubhouse ... which is I guess what Johnny Knoxville is saying.

And it's depressing, because I want a lady to come along and make a "Robot Chicken" or a "Venture Brothers" for us (and by "us" I mean enjoyable to both sexes). Granted, Sarah Silverman seems to be coming close but ... mmm, I wish I liked her better.

(ETA: Actually, now that I think of it, Daria might count ... alas, I was too young to watch at the time.)

But still, I don't get it. What is their deal? Why do they do this? I can only think it's self-denigration. But if it's self-denigration ... why the message that women just don't get it. Is your work too stupid for women or are women to good for your work? And what way do you want it? What are they afraid of?

(This is probably going to upset some people but ... hell, I don't give a shit.)