Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this tasty assortment just mentioned let's take marriage humor for a moment. Humor written by men about how good natured and understanding father is, how dominating and overbearing mother is, how demonic and spoiled the kiddies are; or humor written by women about how helpless and bumbling father is, how put upon but perservering mother is, how demonic and spoiled those very same kiddies...
...Kiddies being too young to write family humor for the Ladies Home Journal or McCalls must wait till they grow up when they can hit back by writing sensible novellas about their misunderstood childhoods...
...when our humor doesn't see American marriage as Dagwood and Blondie it sees it as the Thurber man and the Thurber woman--which is about as accurate as seeing Mary Worth as the symbol of maternal love. And with all that attention focused upon it one fine point is always studiously avoided. The attraction that brought father and mother together in the first place...
...always found it interesting that while a wife's defeat and castration of her husband is considered a good, clean subject suitable for lots of laughs--sex is not. In the regulation school of marriage humor, Mother and Father are either really Mother and Son or just good Buddies--practically two men really--or friendly acquaintances who kiss twice a day--in the morning to say "Goodbye dear" and in the evening to say "Hello dear...
...clean school of humor sex is handled with leers, winks, double entendres, secret guffaws and the poking of elbows. Only in jokes does it appear out in the open...