The book states: “It is therefore useful to keep in mind that we are much more similar than we are different” (94). However, it’s hard not to argue that sometimes women and men do use language differently. Women call things cute. A man only says this when he is joking around. Any other time he would get strange looks from the people around him. I myself would feel weird using the word “cute”. If I think something is amusing then I just say, “that’s funny.” The quote makes sense in that men and women probably find most of the same things to be cute, but they just use different words to express it.
The same thing can also said about anger and profanity. Men and women use different words to express anger. There are certain words in profanity that you only hear men say and words that you only hear women say. However, they are both trying to express anger they just do it differently. One thing may separte us, but another thing keeps us kind of united.
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I think this chapter made some of us think about how men and women can communicate the same feelings in different ways. It is not that women don't feel anger, or that men never feel saddness, the difference is how we communicate these emotions. Early in the chapter, the text also talked about how language can shape thought, because we think in terms of language. If women and men communicated differently, I wonder if that makes them also think differently.
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