Women talk more than men: official

[Ms DD]

Women talk more than men: official

 

 

A "self-proclaimed feminist" psychiatrist has finally thrown in the towel and admitted her fellow females do indeed talk more than men, The Daily Mirror reports.

 

Dr Luan Brizendine of the University of California, who's published her shock findings in The Female Brain, says the average woman works her way through 20,000 words per day, compared with just 7,000 for the average bloke. She says "women devote more brain cells to talking than men", and cites fundamental differences between male and female brains as the cause.

 

Brizendine - whose findings are based on her own clinical work and the findings of more than 1,000 studies - reluctantly admitted: "I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us. I believe women actually perceive the world differently from men.

 

"Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values, and their very reality."

 

Indeed, Brizendine says said differences "can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain".

 

Specifically, "the areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all pared back the unborn baby boy".

 

Accordingly, males "chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent" - which is hardly news to long-suffering females.

 

Brizendine elaborated: "Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road."

 

And when they're not cruising their eight-lane superhighway of emotion, women are getting a quick fix of verbals because "the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high".

 

Men, on the other hand, beat women hands-down in one area: contemplating rumpy-pumpy. Brizendine noted "that while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject tends to cross women's minds just once a day".

 

To put that in perspective, "men have an international airport for dealing with thoughts about sex, where women have an airfield nearby that lands small and private planes", as the good doctor put it.

 

Some scientists reckon, however, that Brizendine's conclusions have driven her down a promising-looking dual carriageway only to end at a collapsed bridge of scientific proof. Oxford University linguistics professor Deborah Cameron insisted "the amount we talk is influenced by who we are with and what we are doing".

 

She concluded: "If you aggregate a large number of studies you will find there is little difference between the amount men and women talk."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/28/female_chat_addiction/

[Ms DD]

Of course a lot of the time we spend repeating things, because the men didn't pay attention the first time around

[Che -Guevara]

No, Cambarro...You were born that way. Just admit it dear.

 

They had to conduct a study to figure this out?

[Valenteenah.]

Waxaan ku idhi, I don't believe a word of it. I'm the perfect example of the silent xaliimo. Waa run hada.

[Che -Guevara]

You talk with your eyes while shooting messages across your two brains. Even when silent, you are still talking yaa Val.

[Valenteenah.]

^ Maxaad uga jeedaa 'two brains'? I thought that was a purely male thing? Heh.

[Che -Guevara]

LoooL@Val one brain that's continuously thinking all day and night, and the other to manage other functions.

[Valenteenah.]

^ Ah. Waan gartay.

[Ariadne]

I think it was a few years ago this study

said

that on average women use 6000 words a day and onaverage men use 2000 words a day.

 

I don't think this study included Somali Men or Women.

 

then the averages would be

12,000 words per day for Somali women

10,000 words per day for Somali men

[-Lily-]

So what if women talk? I don't see how that is negative at all, not that I personally believe in unecessary speech.

[Ameen]

Cambarro, I know as men we cause you females to repeat your words cause half the times we aint even paying attention to anything yall are saying (but I think there is a reason much of the time lol). But I don’t think that this study is focusing on the reasons why our sisters are "extra" with their talking, rather....it is a characteristic that Allah has created the women with.

 

Val, even tho you may not consider yourself talkative at the present I remember the words of a Poet as he wrote....."She is like a cool glass of water soothing to the beholder, her beauty is desirable and her words flow continuously like Zam Zam water..."- and the Tafseer behind these words, as recorded my Ibn Ameen, he wrote....this illustrates that women before marriage may seem quiet but once their married, the flow of words they utter never seem to stop lol.

 

And Allah knows best

[Blessed]

^LOL! Most ppl would describe me as quiet but with my hubby I'm like the radio. Yadaddadaa!

 

It's good that women talk more, they generally have more meaningful (and some mean) realtionships and tend to share problems whilst men bottle up and die younger.

[Che -Guevara]

I know as men we cause you females to repeat your words cause half the times we aint even paying attention to anything yall are saying

I disagree with that assertion. Even you do pay attention, women would still continue talking non-stop.

[Som@li]

This does not need a study to find out, just observe the first female you see ,

[Ameen]

Che your probably right....even if we do pay attention, its not like they even gonna stop right lol? Well....I think I have the solution....but since there are many females on this network and reading this, I'll save the solution for the next "Men: We Need To Survive" meeting that’s soon to come up. Our survival as men relies on finding a solution to this never seeming to disappear crisis.

 

Until the next world-wide meeting fellas, good luck and May Allah be with yall.

 

And Allah knows best