Sex Lies And Conversation Deborah Tannen Summary

In the textbook Patterns for College Writing there is a passage titled “Sex, Lies, and conversation, and in it the author of the passage Deborah Tannen states that men and women have difficulties when having conversations, because men and women’s approach to a conversation differ drastically. believe that while she may be correct some of her ideas are more based in stereotypes than in reality when it comes to her statement that men and women are different when it comes to having a conversation. I will be using the show Rick and Morty to support my claim that Deborah Tannen is Partially correct in her belief that men and women have difficulty conversing due to how they interact with each other. One of Deborah Tannen’s arguments that men and women differ in conversation is that men and and women communicate differently in a relationship. In the passage Debora says ”Bonds between boys can be intense as girls’, but are based less on talking and more on doing things together” (424) This is seen in The relationship that Rick …show more content…
Rick does not look away from his machine while he continues to tell Morty that His idea for Rick making him such a thing would be beneath him eventualy Rick gives into Morty’s request to Make this concoction to have Morty’s crush to fall in love with him, if only to get him to stop bothering him about it. This proves Tannen’s point about how even though men may not make eye contact they still are listening, Rick continues to listen to Morty’s plea, eventhough he is working on his machine the entire time they are