Monday, October 31, 2016
Girls and Boys do Act Differently
It is obvious to many that there are epoch-making differences between males and females, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional. Deborah Tannen argues that boys/men are very different from girls/ women in her article, Girls And Boys Do Act Differently. She believes that the things people do as children, reflects how they act as adults and that gender roles strongly bias men and women in every(prenominal) area of life, including provided non limited to, performance, communication, and leadership.\nTannen focuses a bigger portion of this article discussing an audience she had with Bob clean, a softball game coach who originally coached boys but later began coaching girls. iodinness of the major differences that he discover between the two were that on the boys teams, there was al fashions peerless or two players who were br apiece than the rest, and were praised for that. On the another(prenominal) hand, Hoover had trouble depicting which girls were the scoop u p because n sensation of the girls looked at each other in regards to superscript and inferior. The girls team played as a team, won as a team, and lost as a team, there was no in between. However, on the boys team, if one of them made an error, they beat themselves up for it, thus putting more pressure on themselves, as individuals.\nTannen states that getting credit for something ofttimes depends on the way one talks, or communicates. Male or female, communications is a account aspect of life and is passing important if you would like to reserve any sort of blood with your significant other, children, boss, friends, etc. The way men and women communicate does differ, and lots times it is difficult for the diametrical sex to understand where the other is coming from. Tannen discusses that a adult female was given a deplorable evaluation by her supervisor because she had asked more questions than her male co-workers had, however, in reality, she was just seeking supernum erary information.\nLastly, Tannen talks about Amy Sheldon, a linguist at...
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