Ladies are funny. Men are flexible.

LAFF -- the Ladies Are Funny Festival -- started on Wednesday night. I was there for the first night of lady-dominated shows. Three improv troupes -- Firth & Arjet, Sarah 7 and Girl Embassy World Team -- played, and all three were really good.

Really. Good.

Improv is mostly dominated by men, historically. Think about how many famous women have emerged from SNL. Now think about how many men. There are simply more men in comedy, generally speaking. So it makes sense that more of them would become household names. And you could argue that in the past there's been this a bias that women aren't funny. That maybe that still exists today. Or maybe just that women aren't asfunny as men.

I haven't actually asked them, but I would bet the ladies of Girls Girls Girls had it in their minds when they started this fest a few years back that A) this bias does exist, and B) their intention is to change that. Or at the very least to celebrate women in comedy.

Then the whole gender bias thing made me think about the ratio of women to men in yoga classes. It's no secret that there are generally more women who practice yoga. And there's a general conception that many women are naturally more flexible than men, especially in areas like the hips. (My boyfriend has an impressively deep pigeon pose, and just yesterday he was telling me that once in a yoga class a [female] teacher came up to him while he was in the pose and whispered, "That's amazing. I've never seen a guy do that before.")

Is being in touch with your body a primarily feminine attribute? And honing your cleverness a masculine skill? Why do these generalizations exist in the first place? Where are they rooted?

In about 45 minutes I'm taking a physical improv workshop with my friend Asaf Ronen -- a dude. Should be interesting with all this masculine/feminine/body/comedy hubbub freshly percolating in my mind.