Liza Donnelly: Drawing on humor for change

TED 2010
Liza Donnelly: Drawing on humor for change (script)
Summary
Humor means the ability to laugh and know that something is funny. It'll help you when you want to change something.
The speaker was afraid of womanhood. Women are imprinted at birth with things that they have to be like ladies, and pass the tradition from generation to generation. It's expected of them. She wanted to change these rules. She found the way to change them and to help it. This is humor. Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It makes rules unexpected with laughter.
She is a cartoonist. She draws her cartoons and entrusts changes to humor.
Words in this story
entrust / assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone). devote.
perspective / outlook, view, viewpoint,
perception / sensation
tenuous / very weak or slight.