Mark Gungor: The Tale of Two Brains
Nodding your head, or shaking it? Whichever the case,this video brought up some valuable points for discussion. (Since you've spent 10 mins watching it, we might as well intellectualize it aye?)
1) A Summary:
To some, these are mere stereotypes, but if many men and women tend to exhibit the same qualities, then there must be some truth in them.
In line with the "Difference Theory", because women are wired so differently, it reflects in their communicative style: emotion-based and relationship-based. Whilst men tend to be objective and focus on the information that drives their ideas.( Tannen, 1990).
2) At the risk of sounding sexist, I must make a disclaimer and say that it could go both ways. In today's world, men don't think like men and women unlike women. We have the in-betweens (with gender becoming more of a social construct than a biological one). So, the lines are becoming blurred.
3) In cross-gender communication, I do think that overlaps in conversations of Males and Females may signal more involvement than dominance. Rather than dominance>involvement.
4) Listener Responses in women "yeah" "I agree" "uh-huh" serve to promote solidarity!
It's the "I-sympatize-with-you" mentality that binds women.
5) I wonder why vulgarities are common in men-men conversations but deemed uncouth in men-women conversations? It may be because vulgarities are a sign of un-gentleman-liness when used in front of a lady.
Feel free to comment! I value your personhood.
And here's the JOKE OF THE DAY:
Hi Ryna!
ReplyDeleteTotally agree what we cannot say that such characteristics can be applied across the board to all... Especially since, as you said, gender is becoming more of a social construct. Here I'm thinking of the metreosexual male, a concept that probably came up just a few years ago. I think the metro male really shows that men don't have to fit into a particular mold anymore. The same can be said of women!
P.S. once again, great song! haha
Hi Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteI agree! It is becoming increasingly difficult to fit people into molds.
At least, we have a general idea of how men/women should behave (according to cultural norms) and hopefully, that will have some bearing on what we accept as normal/abnormal behaviour.
Ah,differences between the genders I think in a large part are due to biological and hormonal differences.Males need to dominate,and females preference for building relationships.Learnt behavior from the media and subcultures reinforces the differences.
ReplyDeleteGender blurring is a truly recent construct more due to the rise of equality among the sexes.Respect for each others gender behaviors have let to emulation by both sexes.Now we are not talking about gayism or lesbianism here,those have existed forever.Ideas such as being metro as u say are a new thing.