What makes violence funny

Mortal Kombat X is so over the top that they become funny in a grotesque, feel-bad-about-laughing sort of way. The line between funny and disgusting seems to be drawn by this distinction. When realism enters the picture, the opposite often occurs: we become grossed-out. The extra detail and sense of immersion created by looking through the eyes of Franklin, Trevor, or Michael makes all the difference.

Diana Raznovich's play, De la cintura para abajo From the Waist Down , humorously points to the interconnections between sex, capitalism, and militarism. While this does not jump-start their sex life, it does precipitate a struggle in which the wife fights off her newly empowered husband and both end up in the hospital with broken limbs.

While the topics are far from funny, we can argue that both Hadad and Raznovich are not laughing at violence but using humor to expose the unexamined links between brutality, sexual politics, popular entertainment, and commercialism. These representations are critiques of a violent sexual imaginary more than depictions of violated human beings. In her new Manual para mujeres maltratadas , Diana Raznovich tries something different. The idea for this work stems from an earlier manual Manual para mujeres golpeadas , that she and Lucrecia Oller created for battered women in Argentina and Chile, and an unpublished, untitled graphic novel about domestic violence Raznovich and I wrote in Raznovich explicitly references the past, using similar drawings for the covers of the and works.

She underlines that the topic of domestic violence is as urgent today as it was thirty years ago. One out of every three women in the world continues to be "beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.

What new advice can anyone give a battered woman now, in the 21st century? Go to the police? Yes, of course! But the police are not always responsive. Get a restraining order? Though the number of women killed by estranged husbands and boyfriends indicate that these are not always effective in protecting abused women. While Diana Raznovich advocates that women turn to the law in the two manuals, victims know that obtaining court orders can prove protracted and complicated, and that law enforcement has proved uneven at best.

To complicate matters further, domestic violence is a specific kind of violence that often makes the victim psychologically dependent on her attacker. If abused women go back to their attackers, they often drop criminal charges.

The Supreme Court of the United States is currently trying to decide whether lawyers representing the victim can go forward with charges even without the victim's current testimony or participation. Hence, a benign violation is born. In many ways, this type of inquiry is what drove me to research the limits and consequences of humor in the first place.

People are unique and often find different things amusing. In order to examine the effects of humor, it is our job as researchers to try to select and craft the stimuli we present to affect the widest range of people. The application of this still-growing body of humor research and theory is seen everywhere, influencing everything from political speeches to advertising campaigns.

These applications underscore the importance of developing the best understanding of humor we can. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Why does that one video crack you up? Laughing image via www. Alex Borgella , Tufts University. Author Alex Borgella Ph. Candidate in Psychology, Tufts University. Jan 30, 15, 75 Context is everything. It is funny in cartoons because of exactly that reason plus the fact that we know that it is just drawings and no acutal harm came to anyone.

PlasmaBomb Lifer. Nov 19, 11, 1 A man falling over on ice isn't violence DrawninwarD Senior member. Jul 5, 0 0. Originally posted by: Linflas Context is everything. SonnyDaze Diamond Member. Jul 31, 6, 3 Originally posted by: ViviTheMage because it's not us.

All humor is based on the misfortune of ourselves and others. Think about it for a minute, there is nothing that makes people laugh that isn't some major or minor misstep or mishap in a emotional or physical sense. We laugh because it hurts to do anything else. Jun 16, 5, 0 0. Groin hits are always funny.

Except when it's my twig and berries. Fenixgoon Lifer. Jun 30, 28, 4, Nov 7, 3, 0 0. Originally posted by: SlitheryDee All humor is based on the misfortune of ourselves and others. Originally posted by: 43st Originally posted by: SlitheryDee All humor is based on the misfortune of ourselves and others. Originally posted by: SlitheryDee Originally posted by: 43st Originally posted by: SlitheryDee All humor is based on the misfortune of ourselves and others.