Lizza Donnelly was born 1955. She’s an American cartoonist, best known for her work in The New Yorker. During her intervention as a public speaker, she argues that the cartoon, especially the drawing using humor, has a real power to change attitudes. In the context of this conference, she works more precisely on the status of women worldwide. In her speech, she relates her own experience, first as a little girl, then as a woman, to explain how medias or society in general constantly dictate to women how they should behave. After that, she specifies that humor is the best way to change that: “humor takes what we know and twist it”. She believes that change will come from women who are in her view guardians of tradition.
In my point of view, yes, we are formatted since childhood. Yes, some things must change. And yes, humor can help people become aware of the need for these changes. But I don’t think this is the only way. Before lampooning what is wrong in our societies, people must first be informed. And despite what someone are currently saying about an "information society", even today around the world, information is a luxury. I don’t think that we can only rely on caricature drawing to obtain a general awareness. indeed, most parts of the world's people and more women are educated through oral tradition not using the mediation of technologies.
Is humor changing with cultures? Yes, inevitably. Physiologically, we are all entitled to laugh when our brain perceives a contradiction that he is unable to explain. But what we find offensive or contradictory change according to our culture, our education. Thus, we find funny situations what we face in our daily.
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