Gender Differences Between Women And Women

I disagree, there are a lot of overgeneralizing statements. Society has told women they shouldn't be aggressive of crude because it is threatening and not ladylike. Society may be hindering the funniness of women, but I don't think genders are not inherently more or less funny. I think the statement that the stereotypical woman comedian produces masculine comedy isn't exactly a strong argument that women aren't funny. Women have to play towards what the audience

Women are perceived in many films, books, television shows, etc. that they are “airheads.” In the film Karen asks Cady “So, if you’re from Africa...why are you white?” The comment made in the scene presents Karen to be incompetent in the way of not having common sense, which displays the stereotype of women being “airheads”. This stereotype presents humorous intent because no one would expect this type of question to be asked and this is manifested in Rappaport’s Punchline surprise theory; mainly focused on “…unexpected positive events that are experienced as a happy shock” (pg.16). The theory comes into play because of the blunt question that was insisted, which comes as a surprise to the audience. Nevertheless, the surprise factor brings humor into the scene.

Richard Pryor once said, “There’s a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at” (A-Z Quotes). Leon Rappoport, a professor at Kansas State University, believed in the same thin line as Pryor. Rappoport received his BA and MS at New York University, and completed his PhD in 1963 at the University of Colorado(Kansas State University). He studied psychological sciences, and concentrated his studies in decision making and human judgment, even writing a book called Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor (Kansas State University). In another book, The Sword and Shield Metaphor and Other Perspectives, Rappoport claims that humor depends on how the audience receives humor. The audience can either be on the side of the audience that is getting laughed at, or they can be on the side of the audience that is laughing with other people.

Due to the resurgence of feminism in contemporary society, entertainment has evolved and comedies in particular have become more inclusive of women. There is a rise in television shows incorporating feminist ideology, and in those shows come new types of humor focused on female identities, experiences and values. Rather than laughing at women through the use of tired clichés, sitcom creators are inviting audiences to laugh with female characters. HBO’s comedy-drama Togetherness deviates from gendered comedic stereotypes and creates moments in which both men and women are funny. The show, created, written and produced by brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, explores humor through the unique relationship and complexities of the four main characters. At times, the main female characters, Michelle and Tina, may have stereotypical desires (for intimacy, motherhood etc.), but they themselves are far from stereotypical. Both Michelle and Tina reveal contradictions in their personalities that make them relatable and funny. Although the creators are men, Togetherness provides an honest portrayal of a modern female perspective— women can do whatever men do, but both are capable of failing. The flawed females of Togetherness navigate life in unconventional yet recognizable ways, providing audiences with laughter in the form of relief— unlike the female stereotypes found on the vast majority of other television shows.

There is often miscommunication between the sexes, whether it is spouses, friends, siblings, or parents. The miscommunication between the sexes is not intentional; it is simply because of the differences in the way men and women think and interact. In Deborah Tannen’s essay, “But What Do You Mean?,” Tannen identifies the seven primary differences in which men and women interact. Of the seven differences between women and men interactions than Tannen points out, the most notable ones that I have seen to be true are apologies, jokes, and criticism.

It is not unseasonable to believe that because stereotypes are appearing so commonly in comedy, they will reinforce those stereotypes rather than help society rid itself from them. Extinguishing stereotypes is impossible. Researchers have determined that the creation of stereotypes is a natural function of the brain (Paul, par. 2). In attempt to make light of a problematic issues, comedians use stereotypes to denounce stereotypes. The first thing that we should understand is that comedy is comedy. This does not mean that it should not be taken seriously as frequently advised. Comedy should be embraced and takes seriously but not in the

Between-subjects design will be used to determine the effects of humor types on audiences’ knowledge and attitudes. This study will divide subjects into two groups: treatment group will watch satire videos, the control group will watch non-satirical humor videos. After watching the video clips, both groups will answer the same questionnaires.

Gender roles in comedy are significant in how women and men perceive one another. How a male and female allow others to talk to them is a mutual agreement between dominance and control. According to Deborah Tannen, in But What Do You Mean, “Unfortunately, women and men often have different ideas about what is appropriate, different ways of speaking.” Meaning, when women and men allow another to talk to them about topics that are not usually taken lightly there is a thin line between being truthful and telling a joke. The main subject of the joke and what is actually, “funny” can be mocking or derogatory. The sense of humor in a male and female can be on two different spectrums. Usually, female humor is self-lowering can be seen as

Arthur Koestler (1964) furthered the incongruity approach to humor by developing the concept of bisociation which explains the mental processes involved in humor. According to Koestler (1964), “bisociation occurs when a situation, event, or idea is simultaneously perceived from the perspective of two self-consistent but normally incompatible or disparate frames of reference. Thus, a single event is made to vibrate simultaneously on two different wavelengths, as it were”. Therefore, the crux of humor is the simultaneous activation of two contradictory perceptions which makes a person sense the incongruity in the

I found the academic article to be credible. The methods used were survey and experiment. The participants and judges were surveyed by being asked if they thought men or women were funnier. The report was also an experiment because it was able to be replicated, there was an independent variable being women and men writing captions for cartoons, a dependent variable being which gender is funnier, and a confounding variable being bias towards gender of the caption creator shown in the second experiment. The article represents and addresses people’s bias towards genders making the reader aware of the tendency of men and women to assume men are funny. In both experiments conducted the sample size of the judges and participants were suitable and

This integrative review explores the difference of the onset-to-hospital arrival time between females and males with acute strokes. The results demonstrate that the means and medians of the hospital arrival times among female patients seem to have more delay than male patients, particularly in the Asian-Pacific region. However, the various evidences show that gender difference is not statistically significant.

Spiritual well-being is one aspect of the human experience that is appears controversial and intriguing at the same time. This study approached the hypothesis of gender differences between men and women in spiritual well-being. The study used the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Ellison, 1983) and assessed 75 college students in the survey. The study resulted in data that confirmed the hypothesis that men and women do not have any significant differences in spiritual well-being.

There are many events that have set the stage to analyze gender differences between men and women in history. Whether these gender differences exist in the way in which they communicate, influence, or lead, men and women have always been viewed as different and unique sets of people. These differences have, to a certain extent, put black mens in the environment at a disadvantage because of their perceived inferiority to the world, mainly due to historical gender inequalities, discrimination of racism. Especially, young black mens. I do believe that gender does make a difference in how we perceived in the world and how one can communicates with each others.

My top humor style is self-enhancing. According to the Humor Styles Questionnaire (Martin et al. 2003) I am 5.2 points away from the women’s average, that is a 36.8 for this style. According to an article that I found, Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, people with self-enhancing humor style have a humorous outlook on life and tend to be amused by its incongruities. Even when a person that has this style is faced with stress and adversities, they still maintain a humorous outlook (Kuiper, Martin, & Olinger, 1993).

As I noted in Part 1 of this series, strands of thought that arise out of political movements are often difficult to categorize and also often answer to many names. The difference approach discussed here, following Haslanger and Hackett,1 may elsewhere be called radical, cultural, or gynocentric feminism. Recall that the basic nugget of thought underlying the sameness approach was the thought that men and women,2 in whatever way matters, are similar enough to warrant similar treatment. Insofar as they are denied similar treatment, they are wronged, and a system that denies them this treatment is wrong or unjust along the dimension of gender. I noted a problem with this approach in the first essay, which was that similar treatment is not always the best answer to the kinds of wrongs women face and which feminism seeks to alleviate. The difference approach may be seen as an attempt to offer a feminist alternative that avoids this pitfall.