Dan Shaw-Town

There is a wonderfully vulgar Jewish joke about a Polish- Jewish wife, tired after a hard day’s work; when her husband comes home, also tired, but horny, he tells her: “I cannot make love to you now, but I need a release — can you suck me and swallow my sperm? That would help me a lot!”The wife relies: “I am too tired to do that now darling — why don’t you just masturbate into a glass, and I will drink it in the morning!”

Does this wife — contrary to the cliché about the holistic-intuitive reasoning of women as opposed to the masculine rational analysis — not provide an example of the ruthless feminine use of Understanding, of its power to separate what naturally belongs together?

— Slavoj Zizek, “Zizek’s Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?),” 2014