Research Question: Can women use humor as a tool to deconstruct patriarchal ideologies? How? What obstacles do they face in doing so? How does men's control over the comedy industry affect their ability to succeed? What affect does sexist humor have on social standards?
Thesis Statement: Humor can be a subversive and an empowering tool for women, feminists, and other proponents of gender equality to deconstruct patriarchal ideologies and sexist stereotypes and redefine gender roles. Historically, however, men have controlled the dissemination of humor, determine what is and what is not acceptable as humorous discourse, and have used humor and jokes to create and perpetuate patriarchal ideals.
I posted this thesis statement to the discussion board during week six and didn't receive a whole lot of feedback from the class. I'm not sure why, but I figured that if I needed to make any substantial changes to it, someone would've spoken up. As a result, I've decided to stick with it, and I've found four sources (in addition to the articles provided for the class) that I intend to use in my argument paper thus far.
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