Posted on 11/27/2006 5:28:17 PM PST by E-Mat
...women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man.
Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests.
The book - written by a female psychiatrist - says that inherent differences between the male and female brain explain why women are naturally more talkative than men.
In The Female Mind, Dr Luan Brizendine says women devote more brain cells to talking than men.
And, if that wasn't enough, 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.
Dr Brizendine, a self-proclaimed feminist, says the differences can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain.
The areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all pared back the unborn baby boy.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Women are logical, but their emotions guide their logic.
My cube was right outside her office so I had to listen to her on the phone too. *cringe* *shudder* *barf*
Well, that's when you get them to quit.... :-)
And someone had to do a study to come to that conclusion?
Alright, now, this is just nonsense. What do you mean we talk three times more than men? Have you ever really listened to us? Maybe if you listened to us we wouldn't have to say the same things over and over. I swear I have to repeat myself a hundred times a day in order to be heard and now comes this insulting and dare I say patriarchal study to say we talk too much. Well maybe men don't talk enough, did you ever think of that? No, I bet you didn't. Well maybe it's true. They just sit around staring at things anyway. Men, I mean. Stare at the road while they drive, stare at the TV while they're home, stare at their dinner plate while they scrape the food off it. Why, they ought to be grateful we women talk as much as we do or everyone would just sit around staring off into space all the time. Nothing like a silent man sitting there staring off into space, leaving ALL the responsibility to maintain a conversation on me, and then have him tell me I talk too much. Heck, they don't even have the nerve to tell us themselves!! They have some study tell us!! Well I don't have to take that, I tell you what, I'll just never talk to any of you again, how about that, huh buster? Yes that's right, you'll be sorry then, won't you, staring at the TV in utter silence. Oh, you'll like it at first I guess but what happens when the football game is over, huh? Then what, huh? Huh? Then what, huh? That's what I thought!! Oh, and by the way, did they measure WHEN men supposedly are so quiet, hmmmm?? Let me tell you, there are two surefire ways to get a man to start running his mouth. Know what they are? Well, I'll tell you... one way is to get on the phone with your mom. Oh, suddenly they want to talk to you, interjecting little comments here and there, asking questions, interrupting constantly. Nothing like a woman on the phone with someone else to bring a man out of his cave. Then there's trying to read a book. Nothing a man hates like the sight of a woman with a book. Want to see how "quiet" men are? Put on a mini skirt and the highest heels you can walk in, grab a book and go to the airport. Quiet my rear, you sit down in that little skirt and a book and no man within 20 feet will leave you alone. Well, this so-called study is just the biggest bunch of nonsense I ever did see. Women talk more. Huh. I'll have you know that I personally am as quiet as a mouse. Yes I am. Many's the time people have forgotten I was even there I was just so quiet. I guess you fellows think you have all women figured out, don't you? Well let me tell you...
Oh baloney...after the lions and tigers and bears ate the men folk...then women killed the lions, tigers, and bears and served them up in a gamey souffle...with a nice chianti and fava beans.
Sorry, I wasn't listening, what did you say?
Who, me? I forget!
She had to have jaw surgery and her jaw was wired shut for 6 weeks, during which time, she still managed to talk non stop.
Typical man! ;o)
What???? No way!!!!
Women can talk faster because they don't need to think first.
Whatever you say, dear....
Once a day? Who did they interview, 95 year old women?
the bunnies are chocolate...and I didn't read Watership Down. Should I?
Why use 2 words when a thousand will do?
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