Is Sexual Humor Sexist?

No Laughing Matter: Boundaries of Gender-Based Humour in the Classroom

“…Fundamental to this approach is the claim that women who are status disadvantaged in male dominated societies, should be less tolerant of female-disparaging jokes. A number of studies report results consistent with this claim [4,7,22,35]. However, the findings are not unequivocal since some studies find no sex differences in the appreciation of sexist humour [6,16].…”

Gender, object, and humor

“…Would Chapman and Gadfield's (1976) statement that males perceive cartoons and other humorous situations to be funnier than females hold true today? Could Hassett and Houlihan (1979) replicate the findings of their survey of Psychology Today readers in which they found that men generally found jokes to be more amusing than did females?…”

Romanian college students' reactions to sexist humor: description and predictors

“…In Priest and Wilhelm's (1974) study, males' ratings of anti-female jokes as humorous were higher than females', whereas females found anti-male jokes to be funnier than anti-female jokes. Chapman and Gadfield (1976) found that men's funniness ratings of sexist sexual cartoons were higher than women's, although there were no gender differences in the appreciation of non-sexist sexual cartoons. Brodzinsky et al (1981) found that males rated sexual cartoons in which women were disparaged as funnier than cartoons depicting absurd humor, while the reverse pattern was observed in females, who preferred absurd humor to anti-female sexist cartoons.…”