[Overpaid Slacker]

I'd read an interesting study of humor within the last few months. If anybody is really interested, I'll try to find it.

Essentially, the results of the study were that women are not as quick or facile with the elements of humor... slower on the uptake and less likely to recognize or generate the dichotomies often at the root of humor.

Please, before every Y-chromosome deficient freakshow gets all defensive... it's not to say there can't be funny women, or women who possess the skillsets involved, simply that there will be fewer of them, and even those may not, on the whole, equal the male side. Frankly, I think the almost total absence of funny comediennes illustrates the point. (And I don't find "didja ever buy a dress 'cause you needed change for gum?" to be funny).

Going beyond the strict limits of the study, I'd guess that, lacking (but still appreciating) these skills, it provides a cerebral satisfaction that women are unable (or dramatically less able) to provide for themselves.

JP