Drawing upon humor for a change

This speech is about a cartoonist named Liza Donnelly who thinks that humor is a good way to change things, and she says that women are the ones who can make the society evolved because they can bring “a different voice to the table”, thanks to their knowledge of traditions. So she started drawing to think about society, and then she realized that she could try to make other people thinking about all the rules without sense that we’re following. In this perspective, she decided to work with women from a lot of different countries who also draw, to get their voices heard.

Consequently, the central idea of this speech is the power of the association between women and humor, in order to change some injustices or stupid rules.

I think Liza Donnelly is right, humor does change things. I think it’s easier to pass an idea with a funny cartoon than telling that directly. It can make people think about an injustice that they didn’t know while they’re simply reading a comic strip, and so the message they receive is softer than information given by a journalist who speak with difficult and very specific words. In many countries, we can see cartoons or caricatures in the news papers which catch our intention more than a long article and resume some situations in a funny way.  For example, since many years, Charb is drawing some satiric and teasing cartoons to illustrate the “Charlie Hebdo” news paper, who contribute to the success of this one.

Charb's illustration

Plus, the fact that women express theirself with this type of illustration is very important because they have a different look on what happens in today’s society. So, with their point of view, they can touch people  in a other way than men’s.

Finally, I agree with her about the idea that humor depend on one’s culture. Actually, humor is sometimes based on events that happened on a country. For example some French peoples may laugh at the Charb’s cartoon I put in my post because they understand the meaning of this, which is that some of us are waiting for 2012’s elections in order to change of government, but a foreign people may not understand the purpose if he doesn’t know that. That’s why I think that humor depend on the culture when it refers to a particular point.

On the other hand, humor is kinda universal. For example, Liza Donnelly’s cartoon makes me laughing, even if I’m not an American woman, and I think that even a guy could laugh. So, everybody can laugh at some jokes if they’re not referring to an un-universal reference.