http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/12/22/new-study-links-humour-with-testosterone/ (so you don't have to) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:30:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/12/22/new-study-links-humour-with-testosterone/#comment-42588 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:40:45 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2007/12/22/new-study-links-humour-with-testosterone/#comment-42588 Shuster's theories do seem a little incomplete and tend to gloss over how men and women are socialised. I've tended to observe that humour is used by boys and men and encouraged in different ways to women.That doesn't mean that all men are naturally funny and women aren't (I know effortlessly funny women and humourles men). OK maybe high testosterone prompts slightly more cruel attempts at humour but it sounds a bit too simplistic. I would have thought it was reasonably obvious that women might find themselves unrewarded in using humour in quite the same way as men sometimes(or entering certain career paths works equally well as an analogy) so there's a very large social approval and disapproval aspect at work. Shuster’s theories do seem a little incomplete and tend to gloss over how men and women are socialised. I’ve tended to observe that humour is used by boys and men and encouraged in different ways to women.That doesn’t mean that all men are naturally funny and women aren’t (I know effortlessly funny women and humourles men). OK maybe high testosterone prompts slightly more cruel attempts at humour but it sounds a bit too simplistic. I would have thought it was reasonably obvious that women might find themselves unrewarded in using humour in quite the same way as men sometimes(or entering certain career paths works equally well as an analogy) so there’s a very large social approval and disapproval aspect at work.

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