Position Paper

When it comes to the world today, I find that there are more similarities than differences between males and females. The majority is not by much, however when it comes to the way males and females communicated within their groups, there seems to be more similarities between the two. According to the average effect size found, approximately 85% of men and women overlap in their scores across the various psychological variables (pg. 10). The text in chapter 1 explains that men and women are more similar in the way we gossip. Gossip was always thought to be a female form of communication and if men were seen partaking in this mode to communication that they were considered be "acting like a female." However, men like to gossip, or talk, about any given topic that they might be interested in. Men just feel that the word gossip is related to women, however men to it just as often as women or maybe a little less. Another example the book gives about similar traits between men and women is that both use conversation as a way to talk for talk 's sake (44). This means that men and women use most of their conversation tools as a way of casual interactions between friends. When friends get together they usually engage in casual chit-chat. In the first sentence in chapter four, the author explains that women smile more often than men. I find this to be true, however in my situation, I feel, being a male, that I smile more than the average woman. Smiling is something that I find others enjoy. There are common stops within my daily routine where I go somewhere and the people love to see me because I always have smile on my face and that makes them smile. This usually puts everyone in a better mode. That is until I leave again. But I do feel women smile more than men, which pisses me off, because it 's not that hard to do and everyone enjoys it. I smile a lot and even though my friends may not like it, I feel everyone should smile more often. It would make this world a

Cited: Canary, Daniel, and Dindia, Kathryn. (2006). Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication. New Jersey. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.