interes-ted & other okay jokes

9:18 PM

But she works for the New Yorker and that probably means she's one of those people who's smart enough not to wear the same pair of pants more than two days in a row. So she probably has a point, and I keep watching all the way through. Hoping it'd get funnier.

The first time she reads off the screen is around 2:38 -- three women on the sofa, watching a pink smudge Donnelly painted on a TV. "Why do I get this vague notion that something is always expected of us?" She uses this question as a springboard to elaborate on how the "rules keep changing." A subsequent slide: A blonde emptily looking at a rulebook on "you name it." The crowd laughs again, and the laughter seems to oil her self-confidence.

She then pulls up a


She has nice handwriting.

And she goes into how she began drawing to make sense of the unfavorable environment she was in. She says that her humor didn't keep her family together, even though younger her thought it would. But  she did realize that paper was a medium that allowed her to avoid pink, heels, rules. It empowered her to shed the weakness that she had when she had to fulfill her expected societal role.



She starts sneaking in her main point around 6:27, which is around the time when an illustration about how "in one day, I went from tweeting my oatmeal to tweeting a revolution" surfaces onto the screen. She says that she thinks that women can change their roles through humor. She nods and walks off stage. The audience applauds; it's notable that the audience only has women.

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