Tannen's "Sex, Lies And Conversation" Agree
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3 pages in length. Declaring how "most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives," Deborah Tannen sums up in a single sentence what serves as the primary disconnect of expectations that exists between the genders. Her article "Sex, Lies and Conversation; Why is it so Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other" in the Washington Post clearly spells out the fundamental basis upon which relationships stumble their way to divorce: the majority of men have a communicative duality whereby they are more chatty in social and business arenas but practically closed down when in the comfort of their "caves," the precise place where women long for their mates to be talkative and verbally sharing. This conundrum, which is hard-wired into gender context, plays out daily at breakfast tables everywhere as wives who desire nothing more than to converse with their husbands are met with the backside of the morning newspaper as the "linguistic Battle of the Sexes" (Tannen) rages on. As the author duly points out, environmental influences based upon cultural indoctrination reside at the core of such gender division. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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