Southern women authors also have a more pronounced tendency to joke about religion and sex. Authors such as Rita Mae Brown and Anne Tyler had an obvious disliking for religious practices, especially for ministers and priests, and this showed in their writing. They would write about priests who would peek through the windows of houses in which a woman was walking around in her underwear, or portray them in other lecherous and greedy ways. Brown almost went to the point of blasphemy in on of her scenes of the book Six in One, in which a parade for Easter was being planned and the last year's parade had been scandalous. Valerie Sayers puts in her views on portions of religion and sex in Who Do You Love?, when she writes of a Catholic girl who must go home and tell her mother she is a prostitute. The girl finally breaks down and tells her mother, who in turn goes ash gray. The mother asks her to repeat herself, and the girl again tells her mother what she has done. Her mother then is relieved because she thought the girl had said she had become a Protestant. .
All throughout Comic Visions, Female Voices Bennett shows what comedy and humor has done for females throughout history. Bennett also shows how women's humor differs from that of men's on subjects like religion, sex, and power. Comic Visions, Female Voices is a fascinating book that shows how southern women are making themselves heard more through the increased power of laughter and through their writing of it. Humor has played a huge role in the lives of southerners, but until recently the southern women were unable, or not allowed, to show their own version of humor to the world.
Female comedians have made incredible breakthroughs in the freeing of women's expression. Pat Harrison and Robin Tyler made people recognize some of the issues that women face every day. They did this through comedy and humor, which shocked many people at the time.
