MAN! WOMAN! HUMOR!

Last week I commented on how shallow male characters are depicted in most modern film, name sitcoms. This week I'll be looking at the flip-side of this in relation to gender specific humor in 2 episodes of Seinfeld.
As we have concluded thus far, masculine and feminine traits are considered to be polar opposites. So, in this fashion, we would therefore conclude that if men a re shallow in their relationships, then women would be looking beyond physical characteristics into the essence of an individual for who they really are. This is indeed a stereo-type that is often placed on females; and it brings two episodes of Seinfeld to the forefront of my mind. The first one deals with George and his relationship with a woman who proclaims that "Looks aren't important to her." This statement then triggers a series of events that make the bulk of the episode. Now in another episode George gets involved with a bald woman, proving that he is beyond his former shallowness. He is then turned down by the bald woman due to his short stature.
The first incident produces humor when we see George's reaction, which is confusion and disgust, to the woman's idea that looks don't matter. The latter situation is funny because it portrays the exact opposite of the culturally accepted "norm" for an extreme case of irony.