Sex Lies And Conversation By Deborah Tannen

In today's Society conversations between males and females has become difficult. There are a lot of miscommunications between males and females. In Deborah Tannen’s article “ Sex, Lies and Conversations” Tannen talks about how men and women talk differently to each other as well as the misunderstandings between each. She believed that no one person was at fault, whereas the differences caused by sexual standards. I feel that communication changes between males and females when in a different age group. These groups range from children, to teens, and adults. A male child moved to a new neighborhood and plays all alone, then walks up a female child the same age whom has a full conversation with him and proceeds to play with the male child. As a child, you hang out with the opposite gender more than the same gender making communication between children easy. When children are on the playground together they don't find it hard to talk to the opposite-gender in fact, they see it as if they were talking to a child of the same gender. As a child it
In the age of puberty the communication once had from children to teens changes.As a teen, the male student naturally started hanging out with more males than females. This became the difference between male and female conversations. As males get older they bond more in experiences rather than conversations. Unlike their female counterparts who engage in conversation to bond. Females when communicating like to have others listen to the problem only, unlike males who like to talk about problems and give a solution to the problem rather than just listen to the problem. This is where the problem manifests for communication between male and female counterparts within the teenage