{"id":3073,"date":"2006-01-30T08:11:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T13:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/30\/3073"},"modified":"2006-01-30T08:11:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T13:11:49","slug":"the-verdicts-in-men-dont-fancy-funny-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/01\/the-verdicts-in-men-dont-fancy-funny-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The verdict&#8217;s in: men don&#8217;t fancy funny women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/this_britain\/article341715.ece\" rel=\"external\">The Independent:<\/a> While it is well known among men that <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyid=2006-01-27T192843Z_01_N26402553_RTRUKOC_0_US-ROMANCE.xml\" rel=\"external\">women&nbsp;are&nbsp;attracted&nbsp;to&nbsp;funny&nbsp;men<\/a> even if they look like boiled frogs, apparently, research shows <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/this_britain\/article341715.ece\" rel=\"external\">men&nbsp;find&nbsp;female&nbsp;wits&nbsp;a&nbsp;turn-off<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research to be published this week in a leading academic journal <em>&#8220;Evolution and Human Behaviour&#8221;<\/em> confirms what many female comics &#8211; and funny women &#8211; have long suspected: men are frightened by their brand of humour. While men might chuckle at the odd gag, when it comes to finding a long-term companion they do not want a partner who will fire a stream of witty repartee at them. And this is according to the study carried out by academics at some of the world&#8217;s top universities. &#8220;Men see being funny as a male thing,&#8221; explained Dr Rod Martin, who led the project.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/this_britain\/article341715.ece\" rel=\"external\">If you&#8217;re interested, there&#8217;s more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent: While it is well known among men that women&nbsp;are&nbsp;attracted&nbsp;to&nbsp;funny&nbsp;men even if they look like boiled frogs, apparently, research shows men&nbsp;find&nbsp;female&nbsp;wits&nbsp;a&nbsp;turn-off. Research to be published this week in a leading academic journal &#8220;Evolution and Human Behaviour&#8221; confirms what many female comics &#8211; and funny women &#8211; have long suspected: men are frightened by their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}