Communication Problems?

Theres a good article over at AskMen.com about Communication Problems

I like this excert:

It still appears that these differences in communication styles are hard-wired into the male and female brain by nature — and it would be easy to just shrug and say, “Vive la difference.”

But the problem is, we live in an extremely sexist society — biased toward women. Women constantly blame men for their masculinity, punish them for thinking like men, and scorn them for failing to adopt the female style of communication.

They castigate our gender for not being able to express emotions (yet hypocritically ridicule men as weak when they do). They lionize relationship gurus who instruct men to surrender their masculinity and cater to women.

They condemn the male gender by promoting the female communication style as superior to men’s. They even force men to attend sensitivity courses to learn how to think and communicate more like women.

and this:

But men aren’t supposed to be women. They’re not supposed to act like women or think like women. Men talk to give information or report about facts — they are logical and goal-oriented. They don’t think with their hormones. They are not irrational, emotion-based, indirect, or hysterical. They have to communicate their wants and needs directly or nothing will ever get accomplished.

The point is: men can communicate. And they do it quite clearly.

But from the male point of view, it’s women who can’t communicate. So does all this mean that the sexes are doomed forever to be separated by a vast gulf of misunderstanding? Not necessarily so.

But first women have to stop expecting us to communicate like women. They have to stop scorning us for not being like women. Only when they learn to comprehend and accept the inherent differences in communication styles, can we both be able meet on a middle ground of understanding.

In general id probably agree, of course there are always those excepetions to the rule