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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| goniff wrote: |
for me ALL women are "funny"
but not in the conventional "humorous" sense |
Now that's funny! |
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Sector7G
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| Have you seen Angelah Johnson. I may have spelled her name wrong, but I think she's funny. |
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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
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Riker
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Women laugh at each other's stories/jokes in a "You go girl"/Oprah Audience kind of way, but trust me, men don't find it funny. |
LOL ! agreed 100% |
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methdxman
Joined: 14 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| Lastrova wrote: |
| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
Ehh... I have close friends from all over the world. Only the guys are funny. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:21 am Post subject: |
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| Lastrova wrote: |
| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
So if I take off my bias glasses, suddenly women will be able to play tennis for 5 sets, rather than 3, to the quality and standard that is played by men? |
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methdxman
Joined: 14 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
| Lastrova wrote: |
| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
So if I take off my bias glasses, suddenly women will be able to play tennis for 5 sets, rather than 3, to the quality and standard that is played by men? |
Hey I know one woman who likes to play 5 set tennis matches, so therefore, everything you say is WRONG, and so is everything anyone says in this thread. Because I know one woman who likes to play 5 set matches. So that erases anything that YOU say!
-Typical ESL Poster
P.S. if you make a point, I will find just one personal example to cancel out anything you say. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| methdxman wrote: |
| Globutron wrote: |
| Lastrova wrote: |
| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
So if I take off my bias glasses, suddenly women will be able to play tennis for 5 sets, rather than 3, to the quality and standard that is played by men? |
Hey I know one woman who likes to play 5 set tennis matches, so therefore, everything you say is WRONG, and so is everything anyone says in this thread. Because I know one woman who likes to play 5 set matches. So that erases anything that YOU say!
-Typical ESL Poster
P.S. if you make a point, I will find just one personal example to cancel out anything you say. |
But I said Be able to... to the quality and standard that is played by men...
Not whether they want to or not.
Find me one female tennis player that can beat Federer, Nadal, Mcenroe, murray, djokovic, sampras, borg etc etc in a 5 setter. Even draw with them.
They may LIKE to beat them - I'd like to have achieved more in my life than looking at my genitals for 17 years. Doesn't make it so. |
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methdxman
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
| methdxman wrote: |
| Globutron wrote: |
| Lastrova wrote: |
| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
So if I take off my bias glasses, suddenly women will be able to play tennis for 5 sets, rather than 3, to the quality and standard that is played by men? |
Hey I know one woman who likes to play 5 set tennis matches, so therefore, everything you say is WRONG, and so is everything anyone says in this thread. Because I know one woman who likes to play 5 set matches. So that erases anything that YOU say!
-Typical ESL Poster
P.S. if you make a point, I will find just one personal example to cancel out anything you say. |
But I said Be able to... to the quality and standard that is played by men...
Not whether they want to or not.
Find me one female tennis player that can beat Federer, Nadal, Mcenroe, murray, djokovic, sampras, borg etc etc in a 5 setter. Even draw with them.
They may LIKE to beat them - I'd like to have achieved more in my life than looking at my genitals for 17 years. Doesn't make it so. |
I was being sarcastic. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| methdxman wrote: |
| Globutron wrote: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
| Lastrova wrote: |
| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
So if I take off my bias glasses, suddenly women will be able to play tennis for 5 sets, rather than 3, to the quality and standard that is played by men? |
Hey I know one woman who likes to play 5 set tennis matches, so therefore, everything you say is WRONG, and so is everything anyone says in this thread. Because I know one woman who likes to play 5 set matches. So that erases anything that YOU say!
-Typical ESL Poster
P.S. if you make a point, I will find just one personal example to cancel out anything you say. |
But I said Be able to... to the quality and standard that is played by men...
Not whether they want to or not.
Find me one female tennis player that can beat Federer, Nadal, Mcenroe, murray, djokovic, sampras, borg etc etc in a 5 setter. Even draw with them.
They may LIKE to beat them - I'd like to have achieved more in my life than looking at my genitals for 17 years. Doesn't make it so. |
I was being sarcastic. |
Sarcasm isn't funny these days though, it's better to actually ignore the sarcasm and continue like normal. To paraphrase Peep show.
That, and people are so often accurate to your sarcastic example that it could quite easily have passed as none sarcasm. |
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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
| Lastrova wrote: |
| It's not exactly a puzzle as to why I find so few Western (native English speaking) women particularly funny. Their perspective has become monopolized and captivated by the feminist perspective on too many issues. When traveling the world, I find women from many different cultures absolutely hilarious. Equally as funny as men. No argument there. It's that old saw: they respond to the world as a human being living in the world, and not from a segregated and exclusive point of view. Take off the ideological glasses and women really are equals. |
So if I take off my bias glasses, suddenly women will be able to play tennis for 5 sets, rather than 3, to the quality and standard that is played by men? |
Apples and oranges. Physical attributes are pretty straightforward. A sense of humor is a shifty, amorphous thing. And I'm pretty pissed that women tennis players can play less and get paid the same. But life ain't fair. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:58 am Post subject: |
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Lazy gits.
Well actually the humour thing is quite likely a physical thing, since our brains are constructed entirely differently.
Woman have far more white matter (ten times the amount of men) and men have far more gray matter (6 times the amount of women), and they do completely different things. There is absolutely no white matter in the prefrontal cortex of a man's brain, yet masses of it in a woman.
Doubtless this brings about vital changes, since this area is largely about reasoning, morals, social responses, mood and rationality. And let's not forget schizophrenia and depression.
The heterogeneity of the brain is wired completely different, it's surprising so much has come out the same. |
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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:20 am Post subject: |
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Well actually the humour thing is quite likely a physical thing, since our brains are constructed entirely differently.
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Nice try, but brain plasticity probably means that the give and take of humor--what can be perceived as funny and what is created to be funny--most often comes under the umbrella of nurture rather than nature. No doubt humans are wired (in a malleable sort of way) to appreciate and look at life as humorous, but it's more likely learned rather than an inherent and unmodifiable genetic attribute. One approach is to check out women who have no investment in and desire to procreate. Take away this compulsion, subtract hormonal responses, and see how true the formula rings. That said, humor is such a personal response. Really hard to quantify or qualify. Sometimes, elderly ladies, no longer held captive by the demands of family and social expectations, can be damn funny. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:44 am Post subject: |
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Yes, it was a nice try, huh?
heh.
But I was being serious in that... well, really, I would put a lot of money on the idea that nurture and nature are entirely intrinsic to each other, completely mutually exclusive in all cases, to different degrees here and there.
It's a known fact that the construction of the brain affects the way we think, and is often an explanation for our differences. There is no solid ground or evidence as such mind, since it's such an intensely complicated organ.
It's very evident that most people seem to severely underestimate the effects of nature on a humans upbringing. |
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