Thursday, March 4, 2010
Week 6 - Men vs Women in Language
I feel that men and women do use language differently. I also feel that men and women use it differently in the same situations too. I feel that men tend to be a lot more masculine around eachother and wen we speak we want to be tough. When we speak to the opposite sex we then tend to change our tone and be more sensitive and our choice of words are limited or completley changed. I also noticed that when I am around my freinds I speak in a joking tone with friends and always tend to make fun of them and talk about drinking beer and getting drunk and all that stuff. Then when I am with my girlfriend I do not really talk about getting drunk. I will say nicer things around her and I only make fun of her in good taste that is not as harsh because I do not want to say anything that she might take differently as my friends would. I also notice that my girlfriend talks to me one way but when she is talking to her friends it is like she is one of those gossiping hair stylists you see on tv that always hsve something to say about everything. I feel that we do this because we are conscious of our surroundings and we just naturally know what is appropriate and what is not.
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Hi Kirk,
ReplyDeleteI really liked what you had to say. I pretty much wrote about the same thing. I talked about my friend and he changes his tone of voice when he talks to other guys. I noticed it when he was on the phone and this shift in his tone seemed so weird to me. I know that girls speak differently than men, but I have never heard a women’s voice become more feminine because they are talking to a girl, or vise versa. This is an interesting concept. I sometimes wonder if my male friends around my other friend notice his more masculine tone change and ask about it. I wonder what he would say because if you have to change your tone, then you think more people would notice, and be curious about the situation.
Kirk,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. Men and women have different language, and treat situations in their own way. They may have the same situation yet they will respond to it in a different manner. I also agree with the fact men go towards the masculine side and women stay on the feminine side. Our gender roles have helped us be adapting to situations and without us being conscious of it change the way we speak and act. Like you said I as well talk differently to my fiancé then with my friends. Taking to the girls is always the gossip, where I would never put my fiancé through the annoying girl gossip. Good job and good luck with the rest of the semester.
-Giggles
I almost said the exact same thing when I wrote my post. I agree with how men and women use language very differently. It also sounded like we fufill stereotypes about ourselves. For example, you wrote about how women tend to gossip and how men tend to act tough. These are the basic streotypes of our genders.So it seems that we use lagnguage to communicate gender roles and stereotypes. I wonder what it would be like if we didn't have language. Stereotypes would be different
ReplyDeletebecause we would not be able to define ourselves by judgments as much. Instead we could be a strong community and work together instead of the individualitic soceity we have now.
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