The style of communication comes differently to people, especially when the background of the person differs. Both men and women react to certain things in different manners. This leads to easy miscommunication between the two. It is almost as if the two had a separate set of jargon in which only women understand women and men understand men. Women tend to be more sensitive and handle the matter in a respectful sort of way. This causes them to interact in a nicer tone and make up for the other person’s lack of understanding of what they are saying. For example, a woman can be thanking a male or apologizing to them and they’ll respond with a close ended retort that seems rude to the woman. This is because women have different expectations on how to talk to others. In analyzing women, they have been found to be more submissive in conversations in attempt to be respectful and not to overstep in their status. However, men tend to find the female way of communicating to be strange without even realizing it.
The way that men communicate is more direct and avoids sugar coating what they are trying to get across. As a result, many communications from male to female go miscommunicated because of the lack of understanding what each is trying to say. While a man can seem like he is trying to make a woman seem inferior to him because of his way of arguing, the truth is that is simply how they know to argue. Women style fo arguing goes farther into listening and understanding, while men tend to make an illustrious argument on why they are right. Men tend to take the women’s rebuttal and expand on small details as to why they are incorrect. This creates tension in who is in a higher position, not through status, but by one making the other seem inferior. Men’s style of communication relies more on being straightforward without any added statements that may give the wrong impression.
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