Gendered Communication

The differences between interactions of social events are derived from people feeling secure and protected verses feeling threatened and helpless. Campus settings are interrupted as high-risk environments for rape culture and are seen to promote sexual aggression from the dominant groups. When looking at systemic factors in the problem we can see how fraternities create guideline that follow in the traditions of perpetuating rape culture. Men who participated in fraternity living arrangements are encouraged to interact and bond with like-minded members. Often these brothers are not encouraged to develop or share experiences with others outside of the fraternity. This level of involvement embraces the dominant cultural beliefs or values to be see as a way of life. Without being able to experience healthy and diverse situation these people are

As the laugh they all laughed, and the joke they all told, and the secrets they all shared. Female and Male friends are similar and distinctive in so many ways. But one thing they share among each other is their friendship. Such Conversations, Activities and personalities are displayed differently between male and females.

The town of Smalls Ville was quiet. The clock in the town square struck midnight, when all of the sudden, a huge blast which was followed by the screech of sirens penetrated the night. A dark figure is running out through the blast carrying two bags and the smoke from the blast covered his escape as the new hole within the banks vault is blocked by the smoke from the blast. The figure disappears into the night as the police block off the area to the public. As two police men investigating the robbery start to speak with one and other a crowd of people are trying to see what’s going on.

This paper has drawn several insights into the world of student organizations, the relationship of their members and the way they communicate. First, we addressed how structured communication has the ability to facilitate a meeting and make it successful. It also creates such an order to not allow for error. Then we saw how tailoring your communication to an audience creates better, clearer conversations, which ultimately save time. In addition we looked at masculine communication, its characteristics, and how it is used, successfully, in an organizational setting.

Society makes people feel they should play the role of their assigned genders. Most individuals are all striving for the same aspirations and dreams to be the best that they can be. When a person is born, whoever they are or desire to be, it shouldn’t be based on their gender. I disagree that gender roles are important in society because each individual should be able to be whoever they feel they are without any expectations or limits.

     Men have a tendency to use their hands more often while speaking than do women. In one my observed instances, several guys and girls had gathered at my friend’s house to eat dinner, and the amount of hand motions and gestures that the guys were using seemed to be infinite. One guy frank practically drew out an entire picture of his car in the air while describing it to the other guys. Meanwhile, the girls’ hands remained on their food or their drink or on the table. Girls nodded much more than guys—but made no other gesture with as much frequency.

Gender and communication is a complex and controversial topic, if not only because of gender roles. Aside from gender roles there are other factors such as culture, life experience, and stereotypes that also greatly influence gender and communication. Gender roles play a large part in the topic of gender and communication because of stereotypes and the masculine and feminine language we use. There are plenty of stereotypes that society uses to reinforce gender roles within communication.

Language and culture are the two magnificent things that aid us to better understanding one another. In addition, it can also be what greatly diversifies us as homo sapiens. This greatly becomes more evident in chapter five Gendered Verbal Communication. For example, it first talks about how the western culture’s view of women and men are affected by how we use gender-neutral words in the American language which masquerade women. In fact, the book shares the generic male words such as businessman, spokesman, mailman, and mankind giving the idea that women have no such role. Furthermore, the book shares a study where children, were introduced a selection of photographs for a selection of titles of a book and were told to choose an ideal picture

During spring and summer of 201 I underwent a six month internship in the information services department of a major company in my country Botswana. The company , Botswana power corporation is the sole producer and distributor of electricity in Botswana. As a company with branches all over the country it is easy to understand why communication would be crucial to the day to day operations of this company as a whole. For the sake of clarity however I’m going to limit the focus of this paper to the Information servives departmentin which I worked.

The social gathering starts after midnight in one of the several exclusively male bachelor homes in this community. These homes called “frats” are where groups of young men between the ages of 17 to 22 live. Similarly, there are also female only residences in the community but since only males are allowed to host these particular events, I will describe the interactions between genders in this particular setting. The loud music in this gathering makes it difficult to have conversations as a result of which I observe that people interact with each other primarily through physical actions.

Breaking gender norms seems like taking on the impossible. Luckily, the impossible became possible. For violating a gendered norm, I choose to stare into the eyes of people I found to be dominant and hold position in my life. Eye contact is a form of nonverbal communication that shows that you are engaged and listening in the conversation. Also, illuminating to equality between you and the person your conversing with. Whether I knew the person I was conversing with or not I was up for the task. I never viewed my disdain for eye contact as an act of submission to men but I have recently learned that eye contact shows defiance against social norms and makes you look authoritive, confident and believable.

In many of her books, Jane Austin focuses on the social issues and inequalities that were quite prevalent during the 19th century and Persuasion is no exception to this. In Persuasion, the main character Anne is portrayed as a strong female that faces a constant struggle to balance her thoughts and feelings on independence of thought and identity with the wishes of her family and friends. Always pressured to conform to the standards set by society during that time, she is obligated to marry a man that possesses high stature and respect in an effort to raise the social status of Anne as well as her family. Similar struggles can be seen through Austin’s other characters in the book as well. Austin displays true excellence in the way she uses the characters in Persuasion to reveal a first person account of the shocking reality of social status, gender inequality, marriage, and the values of social class during the 19th century.

This paper attempts to review for the reader a selection of literature that study and analyze the differences that exist between men and women and the manner in which they communicate. Not only do these pieces of literature fall into different categories and specialties, they also deliver varied opinions and results as to what causes the differences discussed. By becoming familiar with the many aspects of gender communication differences, the responsible worker or manager can synthesize those findings into a methodology that enhances work place communication.

A study of nonverbal communication on how men 'converse' in bars shows that women like men to touch them, but it is their touching of other men that intrigues them. The men who are touching others are perceived

Does your sexual identity predetermine your interests? Does one’s desire to conform to the majority choose our actions for us? We all grow up with the natural need to affiliate with one another and socialize. As stated in Man to Man, Woman to Woman and His Talk, Her Talk, our sex decides our conversational topics and ultimately divides us by our interests. Whether we are born a boy or girl, we are taught gender stereotypes, in which society decides where each sex’s interests lie, thus forming differences in communication among men and women.