Sex, Lies and Conversation: Lies!
Everyone has experienced a problem in communication with the opposite sex, from sports talk, relationship conversation and even deciding to eat and what to eat. Deborah Tannen, acknowledged leader in general communication, offers some advice that may help ease the problem in her article Sex, Lies and Conversation. Tannen’s articles on opposite sex communication have influenced many people on how they now interact with the opposite. Saving marriages and friendships along the line.
When it comes to misunderstandings between men and women, Sports would have to be a leading factor in this discussion. Sports and men, as we know, are a bad mixture. Men are more aggressive in nature when they converse with each other on the subject. Women are more subtle and peaceful, rarely leaping around and shouting at each other. This diversity between men and woman causes many problems. Men tend to have a harder time switching from aggressiveness and excitement to calm and collective. Having this difficulty, women may often take a man’s response to a question or statement out of context and see the man as being rude or a threat to them. This leaves the man to figure out
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Men spend hours out of the day trying to figure out what to get or where to go for dinner. Simple fact is because women don’t often times express where or what they want. They tend to make the man pick, not for their opinion but to see if the man knows what she may prefer right off the top of his head. A woman expects their partner to know them. And food is a subject they prefer the most. A men should know what food to get their girlfriend or girl best-friend when they are hungry, just want a snack or when they are going through a rough spell. So when a man ask a woman what they want to eat and the girl replies, “I don’t know” or “whatever you want,” don’t get timid or frustrated. Just try and remember which food she loves the