Humor is an sadly complex and intricate subject, I have studied is an amateur, starting with Bergson's "La rire" In my former newsletter Info Kappa I wrote two editorials, 358 and 359 about Humor. This theory is very important I think: http://www.pyrrhichouse.co.uk/book-info/alastair-clarke.php Otherwise, in practice humor is a 3 S issue: sadism, sex, shit. Here it is comme il faut to practice a bit of sadistic humor.
To Susan- it is not very relevant if Mary is e-female or e-male. She owns what I miss- certainties. I envy her for that. Again not important that this certainties are negative re Rossi. We need time, 3-6 months I think to have a definitive solution- scam or a new technology. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Humour is an act of aggression. > > A German academic sees humour as an act of aggression, and says that > people who make others laugh think that they are higher up the social > ladder than their audiences. > > Helga Kotthoff, of the Frieburg University of Education, claims that > dominant people exploit the ability to make others laugh as a degree of > control to show that they are in charge. > > The research, which was published in the Journal of Pragmatics, suggest > that the role of humour is not to make other people laugh as much as it is > to make others know who is in charge. > > The theory explains why until recently it has been extremely rare for > women to tell jokes in front of men, according to Helga Kotthoff of the > Frieburg University of Education. > > She said: "Those 'on top' are freer to make others laugh. They are also > freer to be more aggressive and a lot of what is funny is making jokes at > someone else's expense. > > "Displaying humour means taking control of the situation from those higher > up the hierarchy and this is risky for people of lower status, which before > the 1960s meant women rarely made other people laugh - they couldn't afford > to. > > "Comedy and satire are based on aggressiveness and not being nice," she > said. "Until the 1960s it was seen as unladylike to be funny. But even now > women tend to prefer telling jokes at their own expense and men tend to > prefer telling jokes at other people's expense." > > Following this line of reasoning, it is logical to assume that MY is more > likely than not a male. I would guesstimate that the odds on this > speculation are 70/30 that MY is a man. > > Projecting further and consistent with the use of aggressive humor, MY’s > objection with Rossi borders on the pathological and may be an attempt to > assert dominance over Rossi as a perceived object of our adoration as well > as the other members of this forum by cutting Rossi down to size as it > were, discounting and belittling his accomplishments and oftentimes > inferring and sometimes openly asserting he is no more than a common > criminal; i.e. a man of no consequence juxtaposed to MY himself. > > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It was joke-- pls. lighten up! >> > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
