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Think again. A study challenges the stereotype of male-female verbal habits.
  • women can't hide their disinterest as well as men can?

    Uh...I spent a year listening to someone talk about a.) insurance claims and b.) electric guitar solos. Neither of which I have any interest in (unless of course the insurance claim was MINE).

    Interested in the person? Yes. Interested in what he talked, talked, talked about? HELL NO! He was quite upset to find this out, too.

    Sorry. Men don't have a monopoly on patiently listening to Chatty Cathys (or Chatty Carls, as the case may be).

    We just call it "nodding and smiling and letting you think you're right."