BellaOnline Forums Education Biology Do Women Talk More than Men?

Aha! Look, Louann Brizendine admits she had no real proof for her claim!

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Cingular finds that - for five years running - men talk 35% more on cell phones than the women do

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Finally, Louann admits there was no real research to make her claim, and she has removed it from current printings of her book -

"Academic feminists have given mixed reviews to "The Female Brain". She was given the tongue-in-cheek 2006 Becky Award, which is given to "people or organizations who have made outstanding contributions to linguistic misinformation." She was given this award in recognition of one sentence of her book, The Female Brain, which was removed in future printings. In this sentence of the book she contrasted how many words a woman and a man use in one day, and "It turns out that the figures Brizendine reported had been taken from a book by a self-help guru" which were shown to be incorrect."

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Obviously WOMEN... :D They talk and talk and talk...

Lisa I'm not seeing the links I think you put in just text that says

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That could be, that both men and women talk about the same. It may seem like women talk more because men are usually silent when women talk about the things, feelings, emotions, etc., that they do.

In an entirely different setting, as you mention, men can go hours talking about trivial things and passions that interest them among other men and sometimes women if they show an interest or on the prowl.