{"id":98850,"date":"2026-02-03T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98850"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:57:36","slug":"qotd-are-men-funnier-than-women-and-if-so-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/03\/qotd-are-men-funnier-than-women-and-if-so-why\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Are men funnier than women and if so, why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>critter @BecomingCritter<br \/>\n<em>genuinely why are men funnier than women? do you have a theory?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have a theory of this until you ask the question. Now I do. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of ethologists who have studied differences in behavior between men and women have noted that men have much better-developed methods for resolving physical conflict and threats short of lethal violence.<\/p>\n<p>To put it a different way, women in conflict basically have two settings: either peaceful or unhinged screamingly vicious. Men have more intermediate gradations, and rituals about how they move among them. <\/p>\n<p>Men having better developed senses of humor might best be seen as part of their instincts for social de-escalation.<\/p>\n<p>ESR, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/esrtweet\/status\/1984768779839291827\" target=\"_blank\">The social media site formerly known as <em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>, 2025-11-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>critter @BecomingCritter genuinely why are men funnier than women? do you have a theory? I didn&#8217;t have a theory of this until you ask the question. Now I do. A lot of ethologists who have studied differences in behavior between men and women have noted that men have much better-developed methods for resolving physical conflict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,16],"tags":[1235,130,139,43],"class_list":["post-98850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-science","tag-esr","tag-evolution","tag-psychology","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pIm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100678,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98850\/revisions\/100678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}