Very rarely—once perhaps in all my flights across the country—has a woman made jokes. Nearly always it is the men and the majority of them do try to be funny (at least on Southwest). My question is this: why?
Yes, why are men funnier than women?
Perhaps it is because women are typically more focused on nurturing and therefore care more for the travelers' attendance to safety than in trying to make them laugh. Perhaps they are afraid that one passenger who had never flown before might be alarmed at being told that nitrous oxide would flow from the oxygen mask. Perhaps it goes against their nature to boldly state that any passengers who do not like their service can use any of six emergency exits.
Or perhaps it is because men have more confidence in their ability to be funny. Women are often more perceptive and more concerned about how others will receive their words and actions, humorous or otherwise.
Then again perhaps it is some other reason entirely. What do you think?
2 comments:
Peculiar observation. Now I certainly have not flown with such frequency as you have, but I've done a fair amount, mainly on Westjet and on occasion Air Canada. I find that on Westjet, they seem to joke about half the time regardless of sex (although it is nearly always a woman on the microphone. I wonder why? Maybe because outside of Quebec more women tend to learn French so it is convenient for "doing it all over again in French?" Although most of them to leave that the French section to the prerecorded message.) As for Air Canada, I have never heard them joke on any occasion. It figures - most of the happy and polite people seem to work for Westjet.
Perhaps Canadian women are funnier than American women? Or less bound by social customs? I would say that Westjet is probably the Canadian equivalent to Southwest, though; perhaps even a cooler version judging from some of their past endeavors.
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