Hitchens: The Connection Between Humor And Women

In our daily life, we all live with humor. Humor is a very essential part of our life. Nevertheless everyone doesn’t perceive humor in the same way. Man and woman have different views toward humor. That’s why some people say that humor has a connection with gender. In his article Christopher Hitchens has mentioned various reasons for women not being as funny as men. I believe Hitchers has captured most of the fundamental truths about humor and gender. Men are funnier than women because they want to be superior with no regard of the consequences, unlike women who tend to be fair and analyze the consequences of a joke before laughing at it.

In the Vanity Fair article ‘Why women are not funny?’ Christopher Hichens expressed the reason of men being funnier than women. In this article he mentioned the scientific study where the outcome was, even though women perceive the funny part same way as man do, they tend to identify the unfunny part very fast. On the other hand unlike women, men would laugh at almost anything. A man tends to laugh at someone’s expense, where a
One of the reasons is that women are taught to stay reserved and composed throughout their lives. However to be funny one have to expose herself, but many women tend not to like divulging themselves up to others. That’s why women don’t like to join the ``insanity`` of being funny. They would rather nurture their ``egos and norms`` and live with those.
According to Psychologist Sigmund Freud ‘Ego’ is the part of mind which contains consciousness, which he further revised to be a set of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, intellectual functioning etc. Many will agree that the word ego goes with women quite well. Most women live with their own egos which is the combination of all those psychic functions, which doesn’t permit them to embrace all type of