I had not emotional reaction to any of that video - well perhaps "numbness" if one would want to call that an emotion.sschaula wrote:When he says "fuck salt" that is seriously funny to me.
I did, however, laugh when I read this.sschaula wrote:Cats are annoying, anyway. Probably my least favorite creature.
There is a slight difference - perhaps it is too subtle for most people to pick up on though.sschaula wrote:Thirdly, people with tourettes do sometimes act like that. I've seen a guy at my family's church that couldn't stop cussing nonsensibly. It's not just a stereotype...
No, you explained it well enough. It is funny to you because it is random to you. Perhaps this is a case of desensitization to a condition.That was not random to me, so perhaps that is why it was not funny to me.sschaula wrote:I think women don't have an advanced enough brain structure to understand why it's funny.
As for women in general, if as Rory said, even most American women (I gues in areas that I normally do not interact with people) are like the QRS description of women, then perhaps women are so used to so much stuff being random, that randomness is not unusual enough to be funny. If something random is unusual in a normally orderly male world, then it would be funny. Also, women are more often caregivers of small children. Small children are relplete with random behaviors, so that might also desensitize women.
Yes, I have laughed at unusual randomness - when I was in my early teens, my mother and I had luch someplace overlooking a golf course. Right outside the window, a couple of older people were having soem serious difficulties operating their golf cart. I found that hilarious. Even thinking back to how they were unable to keep the cart on the path, I find it amusing.
Actually that was not my theory, especially on the cat-guy. Women are physically weaker than men, and most women were never trained in self-defense (which, IMO is stupid of women to not take the personal responsibility to learn that). Therefore, women react with a recognition of danger. The cat guy, especially with his neck brace on, is not likely to pose a physical threat to another guy. Realistically, this guy probably couldn't hurt me, but he could hurt most women.sschaula wrote:That women are too intelligent for such jokes.
Actually, that's another piece of insight - I reacted with numbness to the link that you gave - and when I am in a real-life physical confrontation, I go completely numb and follow my programming on de-escalating the situation if possible and neutralizing the threat as a last resort. I have accomplished this only through numbness, even if it sinks to a physical confrontation. If it does get physically violent, after it is all over I go into physical shock from the overload, but until after everything is resolved, I remain numb as I was watching the video.
Not all women will go numb at that, but I bet there are others who correlate their response to what it would be if that were in person. Other women might become fearful, and sometimes fear is expressed like anger or disgust. You, probably, would not find him in the least bit threatening.
Furthermore, because you and he are both guys, the type who has an anger management problem like he actually portrayed (whatever his intent) are more likely to become physically violent with females than with males. Abusive guys are actually rather weak, and they would rather beat up on women (or cats) who they know they are not in any physical danger from themselves.
I could not actually damage a guy with my bare hands even though I know how to neutralize a threat through calm and deliberate actions. Unarmed women are not a threat to men the way men are to women. That may explain why anything that hints at the possiblility of physical violence - no matter how random - is not going to be funny to women the way it could be to men, who are not so vulnerable to that kind of violence.
