as I mentioned before, I love Unconventional Wisdom.
--- In [email protected], "mlscha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> OK, so I posted this a few times to the chat but it never showed
> up... I wanted to ask you all what you thought about this (now
> dated) article in the Post's Unconventional Wisdom
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031502318.html> under "Funny
> Girls and Boys." So that you don't have to follow the link, here's
> the text:
>
> "Funny Girls and Boys
>
> Studies had consistently shown men and women looking for Mr. or Ms.
> Right say they want someone with a "good sense of humor." Two
recent
> studies, however, offered persuasive evidence that men who claim to
> value humor in a woman really don't.
>
> Now a team of three psychologists headed by Eric R. Bressler of
> Westfield State College in Massachusetts claims it has come up with
> a Grand Unification Theory of humor to explain those contrary
> findings: Men and women mean different things when they say they
> want to meet and mate with someone who's funny.
>
> Women liked guys who made them laugh and who also laughed at their
> jokes. But the psychologists found that men were only looking for
an
> audience: Those self-centered little piggies valued women who
> laughed at their jokes and could not care less about a woman who
> made them laugh."
>
> What I immediately thought of is that this may be why so many women
> love Gene.
> Molly
>
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