Cross Sex Relationships Are Becoming Increasingly More Popular Than Ever Before

In the video lecture presented by Deborah Tannen, He Said, She Said, Tannen emphasizes that men and women grow up in very different social worlds. When boys grow up, they learn that there is often going to be an inequality of force in any conversation. For girls, however, they feel that equality is very important and that it needs to be enforced through sympathy-based bonding. As adults, these different messages behind socialization can often lead to confusion, miscommunication, and, sometimes, hurt feelings. Tannen explores the difficulties of cross-gender communication and how we can overcome them by understanding where these conversational rituals come from. As a reflection on Tannen’s lecture, this paper will analyze how the different developments of boys and girls lead to the different views men and women have on the world. First of all, childhood and friendship is perceived differently by each gender.

The audience plays a pivotal role in Modern Romance because the fundamental goal of the book is for Ansari to educate people on social and dating norms. His book is primarily directed towards teenagers and young adults who actively participate in the dating scene. While Ansari tried to cover the entirety of the “modern romance” conversation, he fails to do so. In an attempt to not lose reliability, he strengthens his argument by using ethos to acknowledge that “this book is primarily about heterosexual relationships,” (Ansari 8) along with pertaining to the “middle-class people, folks who had gone to college and put off having kids until their late twenties or thirties” (Ansari 9). By stating this, it saves readers the time of pondering what the dating culture is like for LGBTQ members and other people that don’t fit those catagories. Ansari wants this book to be a guide for people struggling in the dating world, so they can be more effective and have a higher chance of finding a soulmate or partner.

People need companionship to help them in times of hardship. Women tend to confide more in their same sex friends rather than men who, most of the time, find competitiveness in their friendships rather than telling them things that may show signs of weakness. People who have friends of the opposite sex at this time in their life, usually share some sort of romantic bond. These types of friendships normally come from school or work, but decline after the person is married. All friendships often decline after marriage because the people involved in the relationship find the closest bonds between themselves and spend most of their time together. During marriage people find friendships with their siblings to be closer than most.

In “Man to Man, Woman to Woman”, M. Sherman and A. Hass explain the problem of male –female communication through the research. They passed a questionnaire to 160 women and 110 men asking them that how often they talk about the topic listed on the questionnaire with friends of the same sex. From the responses of the questionnaire, they wrote this article. They said that the men reported talking about sports, current events, music, whereas women reported talking about relationship problems, health, family, reproductive concerns, weight, food, and clothing. They come up with the conclusions that both men and women don’t have to adopt other’s style, but they have to recognize and respect other’s style. Well, it seems like Sherman’s and Hass’s article can really tell us accurate information than that of Maynard’s article. “Man to Man, Woman to Woman” is based on the majority view and not one person’s view like “His Talk, Her Talk”. “Man to Man, Woman to Woman” is based on the survey, so the newlyweds would be able to understand better because now-a-days people like data from research, they like exact numbers. Moreover, the survey done by Hass and Sherman leads us to the conclusion that the difference in topics is not so damaging to intimate male-female relationships as are the differences in the style and function of conversation. J. Maynard’s data are merely based on her own life experiences. Some people may not believe in one person’s

What is the ultimate purpose of friendship? What is the desired outcome- status, wealth, amusement, or perhaps, the betterment of morality?

Friendships of pleasure are based on the amount of pleasure the people get from being in the relationship. People who go to football matches together, or who go to the pub together might be in this type of relationship. They are friends for their own sake, because the friendship brings them pleasure and enjoyment, not for their friend’s sake. Friendships of pleasure are common among young people. Young people quickly become friends and quickly cease to be friends because what pleasures them changes constantly.

As everyone knows that men are objective, unemotional, and inarticulate. Yet men formed friendships and they usually have larger friendship groups than women, their way to ‘connect’ with each other is impersonally and unemotionally. This result in a much more realistic view of Homosociality in Men's Talk. Men does not like women that chat and exchange ideas often due to gender difference which men and women has naturally difference in biology and behavior. Men are to normatively want (and need) to do things with groups of other men exclusive of women. Man are too dominancy which means they has masculinity with dominance or authority; to be a man is to be strong, authoritative, and in control. However, when personal feelings (friend love) transforms into special feelings (homosexual love), the difference of morality between human has decided they admit to be a gay or not. Implicit in the belief that extraordinary friendship is the base foundation of homosexual

For thousands of years, established gender roles have been a part of our society. Women are commonly known as sensitive, emotional, or passive. On the contrary, men are described as rational, competitive, independent, or aggressive. Believing women are more emotional than men is stereotyping. However, the stereotype is not entirely untrue. Development of gender roles is often conditioned more by environmental or cultural factors than by hereditary or biological factors. The development of gender roles between men and women involves the inference of peer community of each gender, the communication style of male and female and the intimacy or connection level of men and women.

Gender encouragement in social relationships sets the boundaries of how people define themselves. A person’s gender defines how they behave and how they expect others to behave in a social

The friendships form because they lack care from other people in their lives and need the friendship to compensate their loss of emotion. Although two people in the friendship have different genders and ages, they have similar life experiences and living background so they can understand each other’s feelings.

Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with affect the types of ways in which they communicate. We first wanted to take a look at how they specifically differ while men and women are arguing or having normal conversations. We also looked at the different types of networks that men and women

When considering the quote "Men and women can't be friends; sex always gets in the way." (S & C, 148), I absolutely disagree with the statement. I have had many male friends, who I enjoy spending time with but would never consider having a romantic relationship with. I believe friendship is a companionship involving mutual trust, support and fairness between two or more people regardless of their gender. I believe this idea persist because some individuals may have never experienced an opposite sex friendship, therefore they do not understand how a male and female can be friends without sexual intentions. I also believe this idea may persist because of individuals negative past experiences trying to be friends with someone of the opposite sex but they wanted more than friendship. I believe this experience may negatively impact someone’s perception of opposite sex friendships because they may believe it is inevitable that someone will eventually develop feelings. However, while things of this nature may occur, there are many opposite sex friendships that have only friendship intentions, therefore the idea should not be

Women have been often looked at as the one’s who use their words to fight and are quick to hold a grudge against other’s but this isn’t true if one looks at the friendship between women. Women hold their friendships close to their hearts and go through the best and worst of times together, it could also be the concept of how women need to stick together in order to survive. The bond between women is something that cannot be broken by any means and will last a lifetime, this is due to the heavy reliance on emotional connects that they share.

Additionally, friendships with the opposite sex or the same sex relates to dating because these friendships can potentially become a romantic partner because for years people were

“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” Muhammad Ali, famous former boxer, precisely defined the role of friendship for the human. Friendship between males and females is still arguable for many people. Males and females have been living, spending time, working together since childhood and this making unavoidable that they interplay with each other. Adrian F. Ward, the writer of Scientific American, wrote an article “Men and women can’t be just friends” in 2012. The article insists that, men and women cannot be friends and there will always be some feelings different than friendship. Adrian Ward states that, non-romantic friendships between men and women are not possible. On the other hand, the article, “Can men and women just be friends?”, declares that men and women can be friends. The article insists that, both men and women can see each other as friends and it is all about self-control. Despite men and women are spending time together but they cannot be real friends because there will be always romantic feelings between them.