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Your attempt to induce gender-guilt isn't going to work with this guy.
I laughed my ass off at Miss South Ingnoramous because of the raging unintentional self-parody that was contained in the You Tube clip I saw. To give you just one example, I would laugh just as hard (and indeed have done so) if there was a similar clip of a male televangelist who went batshit crazy and revealed himself to be a total fool while trying to separate the faithful from their hard earned cash. (Oral Roberts comes to mind.) Oh, and I wouldn't listen to anyone who was telling me I was mocking religion doing so either.
It's the pure comedy of the moment and the ability to take the stuffing out of these self-important blowhards that I tresure, not the gender of the idiot in question. You seem to acknowledge as much at the end of your piece, which really does seem to undercut your own argument Rebecca.
Besides, in the immortal words of Homer Simpson: "It's funny because it's true!"
