14 May 2019: "...Dr. Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire...discusses gender differences in humor citing research showing that 71 percent of women laugh when men tell a joke (based on recorded conversations at parties) and 39 percent of men laugh when a woman tells a joke." --Rebeccca Krefting, All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents
Now that's a depressing sentence from a depressing chapter about the ridiculous yet complicated idea that women aren't funny. Reading it has me thinking about my own laughter...
(Still preparing for that summer class, in case that wasn't clear...)
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