Michael Rucker sates in his article “9 Differenced Between the Male and Female Brain” that “Many men are sharply left-brain dominant, while women tend to be more evenly balanced between left and right-brain processing. Women are therefore thought to be slightly more intuitive, and sometimes better communicators. Men are often less socially adept, and are more task-oriented thinkers than females.” (Rucker). Young boys can be rough because of testosterone but they tend to overthink their actions and decide on the “‘fight or flight’” reaction and coming from someone who is young, I can vouch for this. Females, on the other hand, follow their gut feelings and their “female intuition” and employ the “‘tend or befriend’” strategy.
Metamessages Men and women often receive messages in an erroneous way due to misunderstandings caused by metamessages. A metamessage is a message concealed in a message that a woman usually has a better understanding of. In Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers, by Deborah Tannen, demonstrates how women and men have different communication skills than one another. Women are seen to “have a relatively greater need for involvement, and men a greater need for independence,” causing the opposite sex to retrieve a message incorrectly from what was meant to be said (200). The article clarifies how genders react to metamessages as well as how they can retrieve them and apply them to their daily conversations.
Women regard conversion as the cornerstone of friendship. Some men really do not like listen because of being a listener make them feel one down. When a women tell men that they are not listening and they say they are listening. The men are right. The girls and women faced each other directly and their eyes anchored on each other face.
Bem argued that such individuals are more adaptable in different situations, have higher self-esteem and a greater awareness sense of emotional well being. Bem stressed that androgynous men and women have a different cognitive style from traditionally sexed- typed people because an androgynous person when faced with a decision about how to behave responds independently of any gender concept whereas a traditionally sex-typed person determines what would be appropriate from their gender using gender schemas. Supporting the idea that there is a link between androgyny and flexibility, Bem found that masculine and androgynous individuals showed lower levels of conformity than feminine women. However, these findings are not really surprising. The Male scale on the BSRI measure assertiveness and resisting pressures to conform, and the Female scale measures femininity in terms of nurturance and expressive traits.
That is, men and women, as well as boys and girls, are more alike than they are different” (Hyde, 2005, p. 581). To prove her hypothesis she focused on specific categories for possible similarities such as, cognitive variables, nonverbal and verbal communication, social and personality variables, psychological well-being, motor behaviors, and moral reasoning. My opinion of gender, prior to reading the article, men and women are far more different than others tend to want to believe. Women tend to be more driven by their emotions whereas men are driven more on their skills to problem solve and physical capabilities. That is not to say that there is not a sense of equality, but based on my personal observations a female has the tendency to be more capable of carrying out and following through with tasks more than a man.
Sammy knew this, but didn’t mind too much because of his infatuation with the change in norm. These girls were different and stood out. Mr. Lengel did not like this and decided that he was going to do something about it. Throughout Mr. Lengel’s interaction with the girls, he says, “This isn’t the beach,” on multiple occasions in order to create an emphasis on his main point. Due to this repetitiveness, it is discovered that Mr. Lengel is most likely a firm boss that appreciates when things are done properly.
Kasey Beebe Essay 3 3/14/2012 In his article “A Rant about Women” Clay Shirky talks about how men are better at promoting themselves, how women are more concerned about what people think, and that more men than women lie to get ahead. I agree with Shirky’s ideas because I have life experiences which support them. I agree women find it harder to promote themselves; as Shirky says “Not enough women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks.” Although my boyfriend Kirk is not a jerk, he is very good at talking himself up, along with all his possessions. For example, when he described his house in Jericho, Vermont, I pictured a two story colonial with a large barn. Instead Kirk and I live in one half of a modest ranch style home.
The First Bloke shows us a lot about sexism aimed at women. Dr Paul Williams the guest being interviewed mentions that when it comes to media he thinks women get judged more, “Men generally get off a little more lightly than women.” When saying this statement Dr Williams use of tone was quite relaxed as it showed he didn’t exactly care that men get off more lightly, which is wrong as he should be going against this statement. In fact this statement shows us very effectively that sexism is involved as it teaches us that the media of the world is more judgemental towards women and that just because they are a different gender they get judged more often on their clothes, hair, personality, etc. Women should not be treated with different respect to men unless it’s appropriate, so in order to overcome sexism you have to understand why is it that one gender is being more judged than the other? Another statement which Dr Williams made was, “6-7 Years ago some people would’ve thought we’d never see an Australian woman prime minister.” This quote definitely shows us that a few years ago woman were definitely looked at as a lower status compared to men and that it was hard to believe they were capable of the same jobs a men.
These classifications among men and women help to set a barrier to show the differences each gender has on society and how these common tendencies they acquire start to develop who they are. As Thompson points out it is clear and easy to discover a females writing from a males writing because it is simply the fact that, “women talk about people, men talk about things” (Atwan 89). These trends are what have been labeled as the common capabilities and expectations of each
As the objective of impartiality between men and women is ever closer we are also losing our attentiveness of essential differences. In many circles of culture, politically correct judgment is obliterating essential dialogue as well as our understanding of the similarities and differences between men and women. The mental picture of equality between men and women has lessened the