that chicks aren t funny. i hate to tell you it s still very much a thing. there are some people that can t get their heads around what they don t know. i said i wanted to be a comedian, she said. maybe it s better if you just die. i think they thought of women as a different species. very few ladies are capable of being a comedian. and so everybody sits right up. here s somebody that thinks she can do it. great argument that women are doing much better work than that. you re welcome. what s the hardest part? about being a female comedian. what is it? what s the hardest part? like, what would you guess? well, it s the rape. i have a deep camaraderie with tough hardcore funny as comedians because it s been a long road for all of us. what would make a woman turn from some decent thing like housewife ingle cash shearing in a private school or dental hygiene and turned her to comedy as as a career. it s definitely easier for us now because we pushed our way in. but back then ther
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The newark times review. Both devious covered many of these authors. You can watch the full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Host and now were joined by cyd zeigler whose book is called fair play how lgbtq athletes are claiming their rightful place in sports. G heres the cover. First of all all, youre the cofounder of sports. Com which is what . Guest out sports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gave people did want to talk about sports and people in sports did want to talk about gay issues. But we did and we knew that there was a large group of people who were like us. So we started talking about these issues, talk about homophobia in sports, athletes coming out on their teams, and slowly we kind of became the experts in becaus there becausee the only ones talking about it. Im talking about back in 1999, 2000, 2001. Slowly as for facial thousand one. Slowly as professional athletes started coming out of the closet in womens sports and in mens spo
Fairplay how lgbt athletes are claiming the rightful place in sports. Color, mister cyd zeigler, you are the cofounder of outsports. Com which is what . Outsports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gay people didnt want to talk about sports and people in sports didnt want to talk about gay issues but we did and we knew there was a larger group of people who are like us so we started outsports to talk about these issues, talk about homophobia in sports, athletes coming out on their teams and slowly we kind of became the experts in the area because we were the only ones talking about it. Im talking about back in 1999 it 2000, 2001. As slowly as professional athletes coming out of the closet in womens court and mens sports, Mainstream Media started paying a little more attention because they liked it. They like to Pay Attention to professional athletes. Thehigh School Athletes that we focused on and the Smaller School College Athletes we write a lot about,