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In her essay, "But What Do You Mean?" Deborah Tannen discusses how men and women 's conversation styles differ in how they communicate with one another. The problem is that men and women have different perspectives. Tannen explains that the "conversation rituals" among women are designed to be polite and sensitive to others, while the "conversation rituals" among men are designed to maintain superiority (328). Tannen explores seven ways in which men and women miscommunicate : apologies, criticism, thank-yous, fighting, praise, complaints, and jokes. Being no fault of either party, conversation strategies between men and women are just naturally different, these miscommunications can make conversation awkward and sometimes can be misunderstood.

In the essay Sex, Lies, and Conversation Deborah Tannen focuses on the differences and lack of communication between men and women though observations. She came to the conclusion that men were not lacking in their listening, but they were however listening in a different way than the women did. On the other hand, men aren’t the only people that have terrible communication skills. In many ways, these differences between the two genders can cause major conflict when not understood by the opposite side. A few examples of lack of communication may be when women don’t decide where they would like to eat, men who walk away from an argument rather than talking it out, and their decision making processes.

Men Are From Mars Woman Are From Venus. This book will explain it all, and I guess we are just wired differently. I’m 41 and I still don’t understand man. They say this, and they do that. Sometimes you try to tell your man something and I don’t think he doesn't listen and sometimes I will ask are you listening, they just respond different. In an anthropologist point of little boys are more competitive and the one who uses language the best will become the leader of the whole group, where women want to be equal, the friendship between girls is different and a girl often wants to have a best friend. This makes the communication between male and female a little challenging. We just don’t understand each other in the right

Men are not from Mars, and women are not from Venus. The way each sex thinks and acts are entirely different. Each sex has their own way of understanding things. They consider that the other sex thinks just like they do, but the problem is neither gender understands that they communicate in different ways. Men and women are completely different in intellectual ways people never thought of. Men and women have conflicting ways of their behavior patterns.

Men and women are opposite of each other when it comes to communication; this is the reason there are so many complications in relationships. According to Deborah Tannen men and women cannot communicate

Deborah Tannen’s essay really made me realize all of the ways that I, myself, mess up when talking to members of the opposite sex. Just as Tannen has expressed, I am a women who enjoys a good conversation, eye contact is a must, and without even realizing it I have expected my husband to be my “new and improved version of a best friend” (406).

In “Sex, Lies, and Conversations: Why Is It So Hard For Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?” the author, Deborah Tannen, argues that both genders have different ways of communicating between each other. She states that males are more to the point and want to find the solution quickly, rather than talk it out and get all of the details about it like females do.

In the United States, study after study continues to show that women have fewer opportunities to advance in the workplace than men. These disadvantages are a result of society’s views of women in leadership positions and how women may view themselves in these roles. Women have been making progress in terms of equality in pay and job positions, but significant gaps remain. Women who strive to be promoted into higher levels of responsibility in their companies often meet resistance that prevents them from achieving the goal of a senior or executive level of management. This barrier is referred to as the “glass ceiling” and it is a controversial issue in our country today. The glass ceiling called this because women are able to see the higher level positions, but can reach them because of an intangible barrier. One can look at the Fortune 500 companies, which are the most successful companies in the U.S. in terms of revenue to see how few women are in leadership positions. Clearly, women are significantly underrepresented in these companies, as less than 5 percent of these companies have female chief executive officers (CEO) today (Dockterman 105). Providing the opportunity for women to move into management positions, like CEOs, would bring a unique talent and a new perspective on how the company can operate to perform better (Buckalew 147). The “glass ceiling” is a real obstacle that creates an intangible barrier that puts women at a disadvantage in advancing in a company.

There is often miscommunication between the sexes, whether it is spouses, friends, siblings, or parents. The miscommunication between the sexes is not intentional; it is simply because of the differences in the way men and women think and interact. In Deborah Tannen’s essay, “But What Do You Mean?,” Tannen identifies the seven primary differences in which men and women interact. Of the seven differences between women and men interactions than Tannen points out, the most notable ones that I have seen to be true are apologies, jokes, and criticism.

Another way to improve your relationship is body language. You can’t physically hear body language, but it does say a lot. Most women like when you are actively engaged in a conversation they are having with you. They want eye contact, and every once a while a “mhmm” or, as Dr. Tannen says, listener-noises. Women like when you ensure them that you are listening to them and understanding what they are saying. According to Dr. Tannen, in Sex, Lies, and Conversation, the tenth-grade boys who were having a conversation did not have to be facing each other and be deeply engaged. They would slouch in their chairs, cross their arms, and not give eye contact to each other. She says that they acted as if they were driving a car, focusing on the drive. Even though that’s how they looked, they were actively listening and understanding each other. In your relationship, you have to be careful when using your body language, because you could send a different message and not

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He can infer her mindset from her speech, body language and performance but he can't know her emotions and the thoughts bouncing around in her head. So what can you do?

When choosing to lead readers through a novel in the point of view of a woman that is described as “so impetuous, yet self-contained! Incapable of insincerity, devoid of affection and courageously naturally beautiful. . . . So unlike most women,” (Stoddard) Stoddard knows exactly what she is doing. The Morgesons resists the conventionally domestic, passive 19th-century feminine ideal and Stoddard purposefully chooses to ignore the previously set paths for a female writer. Instead she chooses to present readers with a narrative that is rich with emotional intensity, physicality, and sexuality. She does this, in order to present us with a character that is on a journey of sexual awakening. Cassandra’s varying degrees of hunger in the novel

Communication is key, misunderstanding and conversation is what every relationship you ever created evolved from. Debrah Tannen, the author of “Sex, Lies and Conversation”, entails multiple couple stories of men and women fighting purely because they’re misunderstood. None the less, everyone has their likes and differences, it’s not just men and women.

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