For the December difficulty of The Highlight, Vox’s dwelling for bold tales that specify our world, the staff examines the position of humor in our society and its significance.
“When it comes to what makes us laugh, there’s a lot to dig into beyond punchlines and bad puns. We decided to spend this month exploring what it means to be funny: what kind of power humor bestows or takes away, how it shapes and reflects who we are, and who gets to wield it in the first place,” writes editor Julia Rubin in her introduction to the difficulty.
Contributors to the difficulty embrace Constance Grady on why liberals and conservatives don’t get every others’ jokes; Rebecca Jennings on the unified idea of “millennial cringe”; Allie Volpe on the very severe science of humor; Aubrey Hirsch on the humor gender hole; Emily Stewart on meme shares and the boundaries of being in on the joke; Ashley Ray on grief, theater camp, and studying to make herself chuckle first.
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