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Why women aren't funny....

By omnibrain on December 11, 2006.

i-6e6f88f29fcb673ae62eda32b18c4f85-Grumpy Old Women.jpgHmm... I know plenty of funny women.... so don't whine to me ;)

"What makes the female so much deadlier than the male? With assists from Fran Lebowitz, Nora Ephron, and a recent Stanford-medical-school study, the author investigates the reasons for the humor gap."

The article also goes on to say how men are more stupid than women...

And this...

If I am correct about this, which I am, then the explanation for the superior funniness of men is much the same as for the inferior funniness of women. Men have to pretend, to themselves as well as to women, that they are not the servants and supplicants. Women, cunning minxes that they are, have to affect not to be the potentates.

Uhhh ok?

This Vanity Fair article is actually pretty funny :)

ohhhh yeah - don't forget to go check out the new scienceblogs blog Neurontic!

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I just read the whole thing...I had to. Man knows how to be provoactive. He also knows how to patronize. He's got, like, a black belt in being patronizing. It's an interseting topic. I disagreed with most of what he had to say, except for this sentence here:

"Precisely because humor is a sign of intelligence (and many women believe..that they become threatening to men if they appear too bright), it could b e that in some way men do not *want* to be funny. They want them as an audience, not as rivals."

Sounds about right to me, at least for some men.

yeah I think I might agree with that as well... the article was pretty funny - just full of crap ;)