'Ware sentence structure! And rushed posting.
Hmm, I've just added miriam_heddy's post on why critical feminist commentating fans are called 'killjoys' to my memories section and realised, once again, despite my best intentions it is a mess. By the way, that post is really good (though I got semi-spoiled for Numb3rs and Gilmore Girls in the comments); a lot of things in it clicked for me - the examples explaining why people respond to 'big picture' feminist arguments about canon in fandom the way they do, a lott at the whole squee and crit are mutually exclusive argument plus really interesting points about our pleasure being fragile.
The last point reminded me of that recent study about women, men, punch-lines and jokes. With all the necessary caveats - this is a summary of a summary of a limited report, and I don't know what cartoon they were watching, and point out that funny cartoons are probably more geared towards the 18-35 male demographic, which is just the one objection that occurs to me now, what stood out to me in reading the report was,
Dr Reiss said women seemed to analyse the cartoons more before rating them funny, because they were not necessarily expecting them to be as rewarding as men.
"Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punchline of the cartoon," said Dr Reiss.
Isn't that a saddening conclusion?
ow, unintended jabby phrasing
The last point reminded me of that recent study about women, men, punch-lines and jokes. With all the necessary caveats - this is a summary of a summary of a limited report, and I don't know what cartoon they were watching, and point out that funny cartoons are probably more geared towards the 18-35 male demographic, which is just the one objection that occurs to me now, what stood out to me in reading the report was,
Dr Reiss said women seemed to analyse the cartoons more before rating them funny, because they were not necessarily expecting them to be as rewarding as men.
"Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punchline of the cartoon," said Dr Reiss.
Isn't that a saddening conclusion?
ow, unintended jabby phrasing