I finished read "The Philosopher Queens" by @lisawhiting_ and @RebeccaBuxton (and others), about under appreciated female philosophers throughout history.

Here is a thread of my comedy takeaways for the 20 philosophers featured:

Diotima:

Diotima: “Here are the five categories of love, from lowest to highest. Our task is to ascend to the higher forms of love.”
Socrates: “yeah okay, but how does this settle the question of whether or not lover-boys can have beards?”

Ban Zhao:
Like most ancient philosophers, she confused berating people for the slightest moral misstep with doing productive thinking.

Hypatia:
You have to think the people killing her for being too tolerant of other beliefs at least a little bit saw the irony, right?

Also see this comic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/163 

Lalla:
Like many ancient philosophers, she believed the material world was illusory and our bodies weren't our true selves. Unlike most others, she drew from this the opposite conclusion: that we in fact should be drinking alcohol and doing weird sex.

I find this very wise.

Mary Astell:
Earns top spot for "philosophical work that sounds most like a Seth Rogan movie with her "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies".

She argued, yes, women should obey their husband, but also women should never marry because it's fucking horrible. An interesting approach.

Mary Wollestonecraft:
A self-taught woman who entered into the highest intellectual circles argued women should be educated in the same manner as men. These ideas were discredited after her death when they found out she had been doing sex.
Also this comic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/163 

Harriet Taylor Mill:

Below is a passage of hers on sex. And a picture of John Stuart Mill, her lover. The most shocking revelation in this whole book for me was that apparently our boy J.S. Mill could get it done.

George Eliot:

I don't know about philosophically, but I just watched the BBC adaptation of "Daniel Deronda", and the end of Gwendolen and Grandcourt's plot-line was fucking hilarious.

Edith Stein:
Husserl had two star pupils, Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger. Stein was marginalized because she was a woman, and Heidegger given positions of power.

Heidegger became a Nazi.
Stein became a Saint.

Does misogyny ever hurt philosophical ideas? Hmm, not sure.

Hannah Arendt:

Earning top points for "philosophical work that would actually make a good Seth Rogan movie." Eichmann in Jerusalem, if it were ever adapted, must be a comedy. Dude worked earnestly on a plan to send 10 million Jews to Madagascar. Come on.

Simone de Beauvoir:

I've made 46 comics with her in them, so I think I've got that covered, but I guess the funniest thing about her is that she had sex with Jean-Paul Sartre heyyyyyo.

Iris Murdoch:

I didn't realize how masculine philosophical thought experiments were until I read her "imagine a mother-in-law who has contempt for her daughter-in-law but behaves with perfect graciousness all the while..."

Mary Midgley:
I've always hated Midgley for saying philosophy shouldn't be reduced to simple thought experiments and instead should draw on many fields to critique our underlying ideology.

Simple thought experiments make easier jokes. Fuck you Midgley, you are ruining my comic.

Elizabeth Anscombe:
You are only virtuous when reading Anscombe if your final intentionality is to understand ethics, unlike me who reads it with the intentionality of finding what is funny about it (it is the part when she talks about "coitus reservatus").

Mary Warnock:
When attacking the Logical Positivists, she had the good grace to use the exact right about of smugness in the title of her book "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics". We could all learn from her example.

Sophie Bosede Oluwole:

Argued that Orunmila could be seen as the Socrates of Africa. I imagine it went something like this.

Oluwole: "Orunmila can be seen as a Socrates of Africa"
Some dude: "No way, he didn't write anything down."
Oluwole: "Neither did Socrates."
Some dude:

Angela Davis:
There isn't too much funny about prison abolition but I gave it a shot in this comic:
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/349 

Iris Marion Young:

Not very funny but I do feel like "maybe there are structural immoralities in society even without any individual agent acting immorally" should have arrived to moral philosophy a lot sooner.

Anita L. Allen:
Yes, she created philosophy of privacy, but probably only because she had previously invented philosophy of something-to-hide.

Azizah Y. Al-Hibri:
She argued Islam is not inherently patriarchal. The argument goes, roughly:
- there is no formal hierarchy in Islam because all are equal under God.
- it's only been patriarchal in the past because everyone has been a fucking dickhead.

Seems solid to me.