Women's View of Humor: Gülse Birsel's Jet Society TV Series

Erkılıç, Senem Duruel | Budak, Goncagül

The act of laughing, which is thought to be related with the body rather than the mind and identified with rudeness, has been attributed to outcast segments of society, such as women, children, slaves, or the common-people, while humor requiring supremacy of the mind is believed to be associated with the ruling elite class of society, and mostly with men. There is a judgment that humor can only be produced by men and that women do not understand humor and that they lack a creative sense of humor and perception, and it has become established that women can only be the laughing party, though not always. Crawford and Gressley (1991) also criticize numerous experimental studies in which women are called an inadequate group with neither the ability to create humor nor the sense of humor necessa...