Huh. And ouch. That makes a certain, rather sick, kind of sense. It makes more sense to me than the link to intelligence, because you don't need to be smart to like people who make you laugh.
So for a conservative, wit has to be defeminizing (and therefore unsexy) because no "real woman" in their eyes would go there? With regard to the people holding that sort of conservative and anti-women mindset, I'm not sure which this increases more: my fear of them or my pity for them.
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So for a conservative, wit has to be defeminizing (and therefore unsexy) because no "real woman" in their eyes would go there? With regard to the people holding that sort of conservative and anti-women mindset, I'm not sure which this increases more: my fear of them or my pity for them.