Gendered Humor

Does Gendered Humor exist?
Well, I don't know. If one were to ask me I would certainly agree that there is a social construct which would like us to conform to certain paradigms that relate to humor. But reading the article about how different parts of the brain were illuminated by different types of humor I found my credulity was somewhat strained. I don't know if I believe these results were a product of intrinsic genetic gender dispositions. Certainly I think that different parts of the brain may correlate to different types of humor, and I think people are conditioned, perhaps, according to gender, to consider certain things funny, from a gendered perspective, and other things not.

Shows like Sex and the city thrive on this notion that different genders nessecitate different types of humor. From a consumerist standpoint this is benificial to the entertainment industry who can now justify the production of even more goods which can be marketed, primarily to one of the groups, but also the other. Having Female only humor also ensures that anything will have a certain amount of viewership, no matter how poor the quality, because it has a gender correlated and this correlation alone is enough to entice people to watch it. TV stations like Oxygen and Lifetime do most of their buisness this way. And yet watching liftimeone would think the only things women were interested in were domestic abuse and sexual harrassment.

In short, I am reluctant to admit to any real, existing gendered humor. THough I do admit certain things are marketed as such.