I 'M Sorry I Won' T Apologize

Other than physical characteristics, there are many factors that play into the differences between the male and female genders. Women in history and today’s modern world have shown that they tend to acknowledge their wrongdoings and take responsibility for their actions. Women tend to own up to their mistakes and build from them rather than change the topic and move along. Women are more willing to take the blame for the situation and negotiate the problem, according to the article “I’m Sorry, I Won’t Apologize”. Former United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, is a prime example of this. She has been ridiculed and rejected for the Benghazi situation. She stated that she was, “sorry it happened”, and deeply pained by the outcome of the event. She then took responsibility for her actions (Tannen). Women are prone to accepting their mistakes and using them to better themselves and the people around them. Not only are women more considered more suitable to own up to their mistakes, they are also seen as a dull, unhumorous gender.

Women usually can see where the joke is going and can come by the conclusion of the joke before it is finished. The concept and the intended pun of the joke are easily captured by women and are used in decoding it while deciding whether it was humorous or not (Hitchens). Doctor Allan Reiss, the current psychiatric professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, has produced a report in Biotech Week based on research that concludes that, “Females are quicker to identify the material they consider unfunny and are swift to locate the unfunny.” Throughout history, women have been seen as stale when it comes to their sense of humor. Afterall, a person’s wit is an underlying sense of their intelligence (Hitchens). Not only do men and women differ in relation to their sense of humor, women are considered more