As I read Deborah Tannen's essay "But What Do You Mean?" she concentrates on several conversational styles between women and men. I feel that her assessment was more so unresearched, because intending to point out where men and women fail when they communicate; Tannen actually gives a more one sided understanding of styles. Sadly, from reading her essay, she tends to show a lot of bias when she writes. And even though, she does deal with several conversational styles and examples, Tannen is leaning more on a women’s point of view. So from a guy’s perspective, it would be hard to understand what she is trying to say, at least from my point-of-view. Tannen concludes with a lot of her examples with assumptions about men and women’s dialogues
