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8/24/2025, 1:39:16 PM
No.16761235
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What is science behind being funny?
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>>16761235 (OP)
You ever noticed how men are order of magnitude more funny on average, but women on the other hand are very receptive to being entertained with humor by men? Being funny is something women generally consider to be a very desirable trait in a potential partner, while men typically consider humor to be a virtue in itself.
The hypothesis i find most plausible is that humor evolved as a way for men to display intelligence and problem solving capacity to compete for female attention in a way that also doubles as a way to create social bonds. If you ever stop to think about it, the fundamental aspect of humor is breaking expectations by recognizing an established pattern, then purposefully going against it in a surprising way. To be consistently funny one needs good pattern recognition and ability, then the added ability to quickly modify said patterns in a spontaneous manner, there is also a social intelligence component to it because you need to judge if the other person has the capacity to get the joke themselves. To put it simply, from a woman's perspective, being funny signals that a man at the very least not a total fucking drooling retard, which correlates pretty strongly with the ability to provide at a level that is at least good enough. If you're unfunny, that's a big red flag.
You ever noticed how men are order of magnitude more funny on average, but women on the other hand are very receptive to being entertained with humor by men? Being funny is something women generally consider to be a very desirable trait in a potential partner, while men typically consider humor to be a virtue in itself.
The hypothesis i find most plausible is that humor evolved as a way for men to display intelligence and problem solving capacity to compete for female attention in a way that also doubles as a way to create social bonds. If you ever stop to think about it, the fundamental aspect of humor is breaking expectations by recognizing an established pattern, then purposefully going against it in a surprising way. To be consistently funny one needs good pattern recognition and ability, then the added ability to quickly modify said patterns in a spontaneous manner, there is also a social intelligence component to it because you need to judge if the other person has the capacity to get the joke themselves. To put it simply, from a woman's perspective, being funny signals that a man at the very least not a total fucking drooling retard, which correlates pretty strongly with the ability to provide at a level that is at least good enough. If you're unfunny, that's a big red flag.
