Sex Lies And Conversation Deborah Tannen

The topic of the essay is about comparing and contrasting two articles. The first article, called “Sex, Lies, and Conversation: why is it so hard for men and women to talk to each other?” written by Deborah Tannen, describes the difference in conversational behaviors of men and women. The reason for these differences and how they are a severe problem for married couples and also a reason for their divorce. In the end Deborah gives a solution for the problem. This article was published in the Washington post, 1990. The second article is a marketing study by Robin Croft, Clive Boddy, and Corinne Pentucci, in which they have studied about the conversation of men and women and how are they helpful in telling other people about the products they …show more content…
Tannen says that when girls talk to her female friends, they sit face to face and make a perfect eye contact. On the other hand boys, while talking to their friends, sit on angles, eyes are elsewhere. So when a man and women talks, the man’s physical position makes the women conscious as if he is not listening, but he is. (Tannen). Relating to the same issue, Croft and other writers say that the women align themselves towards each other and make eye contact, while the men while talking didn’t pay attention towards each other, yet they were talking. (Robin …show more content…
Men always talk about different topics and they spend very little time on one. This habit is complained by women as my husband is always switching topics (Tannen) Women can talk about anything for a lot of time and also deviate from the topic, while the males are limited in this field, other than that men talk in general terms while women talks have an aspect of either positivity or negativity. (Robin Croft) The talkative nature of women on both articles shows the similarity but at the same time, neutral behavior of men is discussed only in Croft’s article.
Another situation is when boys talk about a problem, the guy listening and the one speaking both seem to be normally talking and it usually is a small talk but in the case of girls, they ask questions about the problem, argue and showed understanding. (Tannen) The other article shares similar thoughts as it says Women like to talk about emotional issues, health and discuss personal lives while older women talked about sports and hobbies (Robin Croft) Emotional issues and personal lives are used but it directly refers to the problem discussing nature of