Talk:Women in comedy

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:58, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review 2
Nice topic choice and good writing. Coming in to read your article, I thought it would be completely focused on the gender imbalance and what that looks like now, but I was surprised and happy to read other sections on the widespread gendering of humor and also one on feminist humor over female humor. It is awesome that you are writing about this. Generally well-written and thought-out. As you continue to work on your article and adding content, I would suggest trying to structure your article by providing a more chronological historical time frame. I would definitely like to see how women in comedy have changed over more recent years as compared ot the past. I would suggest potentially altering your overall article’s structure as you find more information in these categories. Sub-sections and sub-sub sections are recommended to add structure. Structure is the main area that I see for potential improvement. I really do like your content and find it interesting.

I wonder if you would like to include sections discussing discrimination, sexual assault threats, and overall sexism that women in comedy must face daily in their profession, if you can find information about this. It might be worthwhile to go beyond exploring the heterogeneity of women in comedy across the world but also to mention dimensions such as race and sexual orientation and how this adds layers of complexity on to lives of female comedians who fall into minority categories.

On the more logistical side, you can add more links once you publish the page, both to other articles and to lead other articles to this article. Changing the first lead sentence to fit Wikipedia’s format would also be nice if possible. Mtran99 (talk) 16:04, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Peer Review 1
Hey! Great work so far on this article, I really like the topic and approach you are taking given the structure and organization of the article with your initial contributions. I am impressed by how well developed the initial structure is since this is a new topic and since articles on gender imbalances / differences vary in structure, but I think your approach is effective, comprehensive and clear. Moving forward, I suggest that you expand on the history or changes over time with women in comedy and address any critical turning points that led to such changes in involvement or perception of women in comedy. I would also provide alternative opinions to specific women in comedy, perhaps there is subject matter that is highly controversial even within or outside of the feminist movement. I would also be more specific on the time periods referenced when you state "when women were finally accepted into comedy," when was this? What event(s) or critical moments in history informed this acceptance? Overall, I think you are off to a great start and have a solid foundation based on your initial outline and contributions. Great work! Reillybrooks (talk) 22:33, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello!
Working on this project for a PJHC class at Rice University. Please feel free to contact me through Wikipedia with questions/feedback/new sources! Akweaver32 (talk) 16:54, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Broken source
The source 19 that is in all these sentences leads to a broken link:

"Stand up comedy, in particular, is described as a masculine art form.[19] The words that are used to describe success are often violent, such as killed or annihilated.[19] The performer must take charge of the stage, claiming it as their own via the phallic symbol of the microphone.[19] "

89.27.57.25 (talk) 22:26, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Now THERE'S some idiocy for you

 * The performer must take charge of the stage, claiming it as their own via the phallic symbol of the microphone. Oh please. EEng 07:29, 19 January 2021 (UTC)