Why Women Aren T Funny Analysis
It's your turn to have girls night out and you and your friends decide that you want to have a great laugh tonight, so you all decide to go to a comedy club but as your clapping your hands for the comedian to come out, you stop clapping because a woman is on the stage for the night. You now feel like that great laugh you wanted to have tonight is not going to be so great. Why do people react this way towards women comedians? People feel that women cannot relay a funny joke the same way as a man, so then we have this distrust in the woman's ability to make us laugh. In Hitchens essay "Why Women Aren't Funny", published in January 2007 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, Christopher Hitchens asks "why are women not funny?". The nerve of him to have
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“Making them laugh has been one of the crucial preoccupations of my life(Hitchens 175).” Referring to women and also stating that , in order for a man to get the woman, he first needs to make her laugh. A man feels if he can get the woman to laugh the better chance he has as getting her to be attracted to him. Men use laughter out of an evolutionary need to attract the opposite sex. It should be up for debate that men, are not as physically attractive on their own without a little humor. The humor trait for men is what they feel they have, to attract the opposite sex. “ If you can stimulate her to laughter- I am talking about the real, out-loud, head back, mouth-open-to-expose-the-full-horseshoe-of-lovely-teeth, involuntary, full and deep-throated mirth: the kind that is accompanied by a shocked surprise and a slight ( no, make that a loud ) peal of delight- well, then, you have at least caused her to loosen up and to further change her expression. I shall not elaborate further. (Hitchens 175)” In this saying, the reader, can think back to that one time they actually had a man make them laugh so hard that their stomach began to hurt. This is insinuating that a man doesn't have to look attractive in order for you to be attracted to him. Hitchens use humor to make women laugh, because its attractive and also uses it to build his
“Making them laugh has been one of the crucial preoccupations of my life(Hitchens 175).” Referring to women and also stating that , in order for a man to get the woman, he first needs to make her laugh. A man feels if he can get the woman to laugh the better chance he has as getting her to be attracted to him. Men use laughter out of an evolutionary need to attract the opposite sex. It should be up for debate that men, are not as physically attractive on their own without a little humor. The humor trait for men is what they feel they have, to attract the opposite sex. “ If you can stimulate her to laughter- I am talking about the real, out-loud, head back, mouth-open-to-expose-the-full-horseshoe-of-lovely-teeth, involuntary, full and deep-throated mirth: the kind that is accompanied by a shocked surprise and a slight ( no, make that a loud ) peal of delight- well, then, you have at least caused her to loosen up and to further change her expression. I shall not elaborate further. (Hitchens 175)” In this saying, the reader, can think back to that one time they actually had a man make them laugh so hard that their stomach began to hurt. This is insinuating that a man doesn't have to look attractive in order for you to be attracted to him. Hitchens use humor to make women laugh, because its attractive and also uses it to build his