It's funny, and it grabs people's attention."Rather than putting other comics down, Eftos was trying to make her comedy persona "high status", rather than self-deprecating, perhaps the dominant style of comedy in Australia."I don't watch women who self-deprecate on stage and feel empowered," she says."I watched so many women talk down about themselves, and I saw men go on stage and talk shit about women So, everybody talks shit about women."Instead, Eftos, who grew up in Perth and felt she didn't fit into conventional beauty ideals, wanted to send up antiquated ideas about who gets to be funny and confident on stage.Quickly, her "silly joke" became a kind of affirmation."I grew up as a wog in the 90s," she says