Its a bit genetics and its a bit environmental. Its not so much the humor bit, but many of the characteristics that go into being what is traditionally humorous. Self depreciation for example is something that all people can do, but a good way to circumvent self depreciation whether intentional or not is to concern yourself with others. Chemically things such as testosterone can affect how and when people empathize, which is to say, men can naturally be a bit more self concerned in both a positive and negative sense when they aren't thinking that actively and in the same regard woman can be a bit more empathic - its a bit like that generalization/joke as demonstrated in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the Point-of-View gun. The Point of View gun only worked on the male characters, because as stated by the Zooey Deschanel character, she was a woman, she didn't need a gun to sympathize and see things from other peoples point of view. Incidentally cultural and environmental factors can play a role as well, since another generalization to many is that English do comedy way better than Americans do, I mean what's up with that right? Self depreciation isn't the only component of humor though, something already subjective, but most of the other components follow patterns that can sometimes be distinguishable as far as gender norms, attitudes and so on.
As more time goes on though such things start to become less rigid and more relaxed so expect more funny females to rise to prominence, as well as more representation from other groups of people not traditionally considered as funny funny. I mean we live in a time where there are niches for religious comedians and LGBT comedians and so on. Also why would the ladies on the vine attack someone for the implication that woman aren't as notable as men when it comes to jokes? Woman do not have a hive mind, gender groups rarely act in unison, coincidentally its not uncommon for people to project such scenarios though, and just like many woman will probably agree with reasons that men are notably funnier to woman in general, you will have guys offended (or attack someone making such an observation etc) in contrast. Its sort of like saying, well Americans don't attack all the Americans that think UK humor is superior. Attacking people for opinions.. hopefully not, but your going to get a mixed reaction with varying degrees of opinion and input.
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