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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/02/29/try-to-be-funny-even-if-youre-not/comment-page-1/#comment-264916</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Women are inherently less funny than men, and no amount of feminist self-defense is going to refute reality.  Men evolved needing to be funny.  Women evolved needing to be beautiful.  

Go figure that today women are prettier than men and men are wittier than women.  Sorry, I know women understand humor, but they are very poor in generating it themselves.  I&#039;ve found my entire life that women will laugh at anything, the dumbest down, most simplistic jokes, whereas guys have much higher standards.  The best female comedians would be considered below average if they were grouped with male comedians.  

I lol&#039;d hard @ the one lady in this comment section insinuating that men don&#039;t understand sarcasm.  We invented it.  Male wit &amp; irony is far more complex than anything a woman has ever said.  Stop deluding yourselves.  I hear you feminists saying nobody watches the WNBA because of sexism as well, rather than accepting your inherent physical limitations, you choose to build yourselves up on delusions.  It&#039;s unhealthy.  

I&#039;m not trying to oppress women, I&#039;d much PREFER if your gender WAS as funny as men so I didn&#039;t have to rely solely on other guys for adequate entertainment, but I&#039;ve been less than impressed.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Women are inherently less funny than men, and no amount of feminist self-defense is going to refute reality.  Men evolved needing to be funny.  Women evolved needing to be beautiful.  </p>
<p>Go figure that today women are prettier than men and men are wittier than women.  Sorry, I know women understand humor, but they are very poor in generating it themselves.  I&#039;ve found my entire life that women will laugh at anything, the dumbest down, most simplistic jokes, whereas guys have much higher standards.  The best female comedians would be considered below average if they were grouped with male comedians.  </p>
<p>I lol&#039;d hard @ the one lady in this comment section insinuating that men don&#039;t understand sarcasm.  We invented it.  Male wit &amp; irony is far more complex than anything a woman has ever said.  Stop deluding yourselves.  I hear you feminists saying nobody watches the WNBA because of sexism as well, rather than accepting your inherent physical limitations, you choose to build yourselves up on delusions.  It&#039;s unhealthy.  </p>
<p>I&#039;m not trying to oppress women, I&#039;d much PREFER if your gender WAS as funny as men so I didn&#039;t have to rely solely on other guys for adequate entertainment, but I&#039;ve been less than impressed. </p>
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		<title>By: Astro</title>
		<link>http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/02/29/try-to-be-funny-even-if-youre-not/comment-page-1/#comment-260926</link>
		<dc:creator>Astro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I never use to be funny, until i went to http://secrets-to-healthy-living.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-be-funny.html now ive got friends thinking im the funniest guy ever, youd think they have never even heard a joke. check it</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never use to be funny, until i went to <a href="http://secrets-to-healthy-living.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-be-funny.html" rel="nofollow">http://secrets-to-healthy-living.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-be-funny.html</a> now ive got friends thinking im the funniest guy ever, youd think they have never even heard a joke. check it</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
		<link>http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/02/29/try-to-be-funny-even-if-youre-not/comment-page-1/#comment-258844</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let&#039;s get to the point, Pen.

It&#039;s OK for a woman to be funny if she&#039;s Jewish.
It&#039;s OK for a woman to be funny if she&#039;s gay.
Otherwise, it&#039;s not OK.

To a lesser extent, this also applies to men.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#039;s get to the point, Pen.</p>
<p>It&#039;s OK for a woman to be funny if she&#039;s Jewish.<br />
It&#039;s OK for a woman to be funny if she&#039;s gay.<br />
Otherwise, it&#039;s not OK.</p>
<p>To a lesser extent, this also applies to men.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s interesting how many women took offense to &quot;most women aren&#039;t funny.&quot;

Humor is truly a sense that can be developed. Most men of above average intelligence work at developing that sense, (as expression) because they realize the value in attracting the opposite sex whereas only women of extraordinary intelligence seem to work at developing their expressive sense of humor. They usually have other ways of attracting men. Though most women have well developed sense of humor appreciation. It&#039;s part of the give and take. 

On my first date with my wife I knew it would work because she laughed at all of my stupid jokes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s interesting how many women took offense to &#034;most women aren&#039;t funny.&#034;</p>
<p>Humor is truly a sense that can be developed. Most men of above average intelligence work at developing that sense, (as expression) because they realize the value in attracting the opposite sex whereas only women of extraordinary intelligence seem to work at developing their expressive sense of humor. They usually have other ways of attracting men. Though most women have well developed sense of humor appreciation. It&#039;s part of the give and take. </p>
<p>On my first date with my wife I knew it would work because she laughed at all of my stupid jokes.</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve always maintained that men don&#039;t like funny women, especially if the women are also hot. I used to attribute this to the stereotypical male inability to multi-task, making it genetically impossible to give equal attention to punch lines and boobs. Your post opens up some disturbing possibilities. Either a) I&#039;m not funny or hot; or b) what I consider funny is actually sarcasm and men generally don&#039;t like/get sarcasm. Whatever. The fact that men aren&#039;t attracted to sarcasm makes it even more ideal for the workplace.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve always maintained that men don&#039;t like funny women, especially if the women are also hot. I used to attribute this to the stereotypical male inability to multi-task, making it genetically impossible to give equal attention to punch lines and boobs. Your post opens up some disturbing possibilities. Either a) I&#039;m not funny or hot; or b) what I consider funny is actually sarcasm and men generally don&#039;t like/get sarcasm. Whatever. The fact that men aren&#039;t attracted to sarcasm makes it even more ideal for the workplace.</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Emily, never question anything based on a love of beer. Beer is a sign that God loves us (paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin).  All women the world over would be happier if they liked beer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Emily, never question anything based on a love of beer. Beer is a sign that God loves us (paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin).  All women the world over would be happier if they liked beer.</p>
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		<title>By: emily</title>
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		<dc:creator>emily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This was so interesting. I&#039;m straight, and a girl, but I&#039;m pretty goofy and make a lot of jokes. I have all of these things that in my head I think of as my &quot;male&quot; traits-- I drink beer, I love facts, I fix things myself, I make jokes to get people to like me. Weird that I guess I think of humor and fun conversation as male traits-- and conversely I think of deep, serious conversations as a female thing.
It&#039;s kind of crazy, but even though I have always unambiguously been attracted to men, I have actually questioned my own sexuality based on drinking beer, being good at geography, and having a goofy sense of humor. It&#039;s like these random personality traits make me identify more with men than with women. It&#039;s frustrating too that I find myself trying to be more &quot;male&quot; at work to be successful, and to schmooze more easily at a party, and to get farther at the gym.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was so interesting. I&#039;m straight, and a girl, but I&#039;m pretty goofy and make a lot of jokes. I have all of these things that in my head I think of as my &#034;male&#034; traits&#8211; I drink beer, I love facts, I fix things myself, I make jokes to get people to like me. Weird that I guess I think of humor and fun conversation as male traits&#8211; and conversely I think of deep, serious conversations as a female thing.<br />
It&#039;s kind of crazy, but even though I have always unambiguously been attracted to men, I have actually questioned my own sexuality based on drinking beer, being good at geography, and having a goofy sense of humor. It&#039;s like these random personality traits make me identify more with men than with women. It&#039;s frustrating too that I find myself trying to be more &#034;male&#034; at work to be successful, and to schmooze more easily at a party, and to get farther at the gym.</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So this is why I&#039;m every dude&#039;s friend, and women find me irresistible. Haha, just kidding.

I didn&#039;t even know people thought I was funny until I started dating a girl. But maybe they were just so shocked and offended by my &quot;switch&quot; they couldn&#039;t think of anything else to say.  

I wonder if I went back to boys if I would be un-funny again?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So this is why I&#039;m every dude&#039;s friend, and women find me irresistible. Haha, just kidding.</p>
<p>I didn&#039;t even know people thought I was funny until I started dating a girl. But maybe they were just so shocked and offended by my &#034;switch&#034; they couldn&#039;t think of anything else to say.  </p>
<p>I wonder if I went back to boys if I would be un-funny again?</p>
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		<title>By: Marie McHale Drake</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie McHale Drake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am extremely funny.  But I did have higher levels of testosterone than normal for a woman in my late teens.  As that normalized, did I get less funny?  No, I am funnier than ever.  Then again I haven&#039;t had my testosterone levels checked in a long time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am extremely funny.  But I did have higher levels of testosterone than normal for a woman in my late teens.  As that normalized, did I get less funny?  No, I am funnier than ever.  Then again I haven&#039;t had my testosterone levels checked in a long time.</p>
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		<title>By: Kathy</title>
		<link>http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/02/29/try-to-be-funny-even-if-youre-not/comment-page-1/#comment-216155</link>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Though I&#039;m certain I am pretty straight ...&quot; Now that right there is funny!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#034;Though I&#039;m certain I am pretty straight &#8230;&#034; Now that right there is funny!</p>
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