"Men happier in relationships when they think they’re funnier"

It's strange that so many men have this need to be competitive against women, especially the woman that he is supposed to love. He has to be more accomplished than her, smarter than her, older and wiser than her, more well-liked than her, funnier than her... Really, the only chip we can hold over the man's head is that we are supposed to be more physically and sexually attractive than he is. Then we have to be up and beyond about that, because he won't accept anything less than a 9.

I've actually always noticed men get miffed when I turn out funnier than them. That said, it's not hard because most men are not funny.

Men don't want equal partners, they want sex doll and ego booster that seal claps and laughs at everything he says. Nothing new

God, I wish articles would stop beating around the bush. It's nothing about being "funny haha, I don't take myself seriously. I want ppl around me to be happy." No; it's just that men associate humour with intelligence, and whit. For some fucking reason. (Are they are so vain & insecure they always need to be on top?). Personally, I crack jokes to stop myself from feeling tense or if I think others are (not sure it's even needed though, I just might suck at reading people. Hell, they might find me annoying, whatever the thought's there. Life's too short, yada yada.) What Brook over here is telling women (intentionally or not) to dumb themselves down for men & constantly undermine their achievements in the hopes of keeping or getting into a relationship with insecure and emotionally stunted men. Fuck me is that not some archaic shit.

From the article: "The study — titled “Do They Fit Together Like the Joker and Harley Quinn?” — tried to understand how humor fits into long-term relationships."

Ffs the Joker and Harley are not relationship goals. It's openly abusive and toxic.

"“Results suggest that men may feel more dyadically adjusted in relationships with women who underrate their own jokes but overrate their partner’s jokes,” the researchers wrote in the study."🤮🤮

This article made me puke.

Wtf is the point of this type of research?? I hope it wasn't funded by public money

I’m so sick of the notion that women have to contort and shrink themselves down so pander to a man’s ego. No!

If you find someone’s joke funny, it’s usually because you have the same sense of humor…men just deluding themselves

"Ease your man's ego by letting him think he's funnier than you" fuck no I'm not doing that pickme shit, that man can go in the trash and I ain't lying, if I'm funnier, I'm funnier.

I remember a guy who tried to pulled out the "wOmEn aREn'T fuNNy" card and he even had the nerve to tell me I'm one of those unfunny women. I snapped back at him and told him he wasn't funny either, not even once he'd made me laugh. His face was priceless, boy really thought his dumb sex jokes were top tier comedy

My partner is funny but honestly I'm funnier and have always been the funnier one in past relationships. I think my current partner though is the only one to admit it though. When we play quiplash with friends I always win he's a close second with us ahead of everyone else by quite a bit..

Reminds me of this:

So according to this article, I’m supposed to fake laugh at a man’s jokes and suppress my own observations about things, all for the prize of… being in a relationship with a man who thinks he’s better than me. Nope. Not doing it.

This is more of different observation but I feel like a lot of men who I think are genuinely funny and who also are in relationships, date and marry women who arent the biggest jokesters themselves. And its not in a competitive reason or at least it doesnt feel that way. Quite the opposite actually, they encourage the woman to take part in their jokes and funny stories and stuff. This is so odd to me because I know that I cant date a man that is less funny than me. Its just so hard for me to be attracted to him lol. But with men this doesnt seem to be an issue at all (HV ones obviously).