You also see that kind of circular feeding cycle of culture and expectations of gender when it comes to a lot of things.
For instance - comedy. Women are actually culturally socialized to laugh more than men are, especially to laugh more when men are attempting to be funny. Laughing a lot serves a ton of purposes, it can diffuse tension, make the woman seem more submissive, and the men feel like they are being listened to and that they've done a good job at being funny, etc. (conversely, a woman laughing after she herself says something can make it seem like she already knows that what she just said actually silly and not to be listen to.)
And then after all this training, what we're then told is that men are funnier than women - women aren't funny - the comedy industry is basically a boy's club and the a lot of the time women are the butt of the joke... and women laugh at it, because if you don't laugh at it, maybe the guy snaps and kills you. I mean, the woman probably isn't consciously thinking "I have to laugh at this or this guy might snap and kill me", but that's usually what subconsciously is going on when women find themselves automatically laughing at jokes they don't even find funny.
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Date: 2014-06-15 03:20 pm (UTC)For instance - comedy. Women are actually culturally socialized to laugh more than men are, especially to laugh more when men are attempting to be funny. Laughing a lot serves a ton of purposes, it can diffuse tension, make the woman seem more submissive, and the men feel like they are being listened to and that they've done a good job at being funny, etc. (conversely, a woman laughing after she herself says something can make it seem like she already knows that what she just said actually silly and not to be listen to.)
And then after all this training, what we're then told is that men are funnier than women - women aren't funny - the comedy industry is basically a boy's club and the a lot of the time women are the butt of the joke... and women laugh at it, because if you don't laugh at it, maybe the guy snaps and kills you. I mean, the woman probably isn't consciously thinking "I have to laugh at this or this guy might snap and kill me", but that's usually what subconsciously is going on when women find themselves automatically laughing at jokes they don't even find funny.