January 5, 2008
The Communication Gap Between Men and Women
“Can’t We Talk?” (condensed from: You Just Don’t Understand), by Deborah Tannen
Relevant article given my recent posts, Phone Conversation with the Wife, and Conversations with Women:
- A woman doesn’t ask a question to get an instant decision, but to begin a negotiation
- For women talking is a way to exchange confirmation and support; For men, talk is information
- Women approach the world as as a network of connections seeking support and consensus
- When women complain they are looking for emotional support, not solutions
- Women formulate requests as proposals rather than orders and make suggestions, not demands
These five points may explain why so many men go bald in their thirties.
Cat: | Time: 3:43 pm (utc+8)
January 5th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Not that I disagree with any of the concepts presented, but I always have wondered where they get the characters and anecdotes for these sorts of articles. While they seem likely enough to be real, it seems that the author could have just taken some liberties from a personal situation and glued some names on to it.
I suppose that its veracity doesn’t really impact the message, but I feel like when reading these, we implicitly give the author our trust.
January 5th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
bz: Veracity? Implicitly? Don’t you know this is a blog for traders? :-)
January 6th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Hunters vs. Gatherers.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
cg:i bet more women hunted in the past than men give them credit for. just sayin. yet more sexism down the ages.