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Modern women. They’ve been like that all down through the ages.
— Jeff Trent · Plan 9 from Outer Space
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker calls women modern, then says they have been the same throughout the ages. The joke undercuts its own opening label. What sounds like a complaint about something new turns out to be a claim of permanence, with the contradiction doing the comic work.
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