The female gender is definitely touched more than the male gender even if it’s not desired by them. According to Nancy Henley, from the journal Gender Differences in Touch: An Empirical and Theoretical Review by Stier, Deborah S, and Judith A. Hall, Henley states that “women are touched more than men.”(Henley …show more content…
Therefore, women are way more likely to pick up on body language than men. Some critics say that men are more likely to pick up on body language. That assumption is false and redundant because it’s been stated in my paper previously that men are told to “suck it up.” Therefore, there’s no way males can read non-verbal communication better than female because sadly, in today’s society the belief that men must hold in and not express or show any type of emotions because it will make them look weak is actually something I witness every day and has actually happened to me. When I was expressing myself to a female, I told to “stop being dramatic” and “stop acting like a b****.” That is a prime example. An example that has not only happened to me once, but twice. This and all the information stated above is the reason why women are more likely to pick up on body language than