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Inappropriate Laughter: Affective Homophily and the Unlikely Comedy of #MeToo
Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, Genusvetenskap.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-6047-4369
University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Social Media + Society, E-ISSN 2056-3051, Vol. 5, nr 4Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
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This article investigates the affective and ambiguous dynamics of feminist humor as an unexpected strategy of resistance in connection with #MeToo, asking what laughter may do to the sharpness of negative affect of shame and anger driving the movement. Our inquiry comes in three vignettes. First, we deploy Nanette—Hannah Gadsby’s 2018 Netflix success heralded as the comedy of the #MeToo era—arguing that the uniform viral warmth surrounding the show drives the emergence of networked feminisms through “affective homophily,” or a love of feeling the same. With Nanette, the contagious qualities of laughter are tamed by a networked logic of homophily, allowing for intensity while resisting dissent. Our second vignette zooms in on a less known feminist comedian, Lauren Maul, and her online #MeToo musical comedy riffing off on apologies made by male celebrities accused of sexual harassment, rendering the apologies and the men performing them objects of ridicule. Our third example opens up the door to the ambivalence of irony. In considering the unexpected pockets of humor within the #MeToo scandal that ripped apart the prestigious institution of the Swedish Academy, we explore the emergence of carnivalesque comedy and feminist uses of irony in the appropriation of the pussy-bow blouse as an ambiguous feminist symbol. Our examples allow us to argue for the political importance of affective ambiguity, difference, and dissent in contemporary social media feminisms, and to highlight the risk when a movement like #MeToo closes ranks around homogeneous feelings of not only shame and rage, but also love. © The Author(s) 2019.

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Sage Publications, 2019. Vol. 5, nr 4
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#MeToo, affective homophily, feminist humor, laughter, seriousness
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Genusstudier Medie-, kommunikations-, och informationsvetenskaper
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39691DOI: 10.1177/2056305119883425ISI: 000503241000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85076002190OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-39691DiVA, id: diva2:1382293
Tillgänglig från: 2020-01-02 Skapad: 2020-01-02 Senast uppdaterad: 2025-10-07Bibliografiskt granskad

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