I'm going to own Disney World!

I thought that the video we watched for this week was both informational and entertaining. I liked how she started off by explaining some of the main differences between how girls and boys communicate in general. You could argue that it is over simplified, but I think that in general most men and women are great examples of what she was explaining.

One of her most interesting points was how our society, in general, tends to adopt a masculine form of communication. I thought this was interesting because of the points she made to back this statement up, but it was also interesting to me because my best friend is a woman. We've known each other since we were 2 years old and while growing up we communicated and acted like how Tannan said little boys act and communicate. We were competitive about almost everything. About when we turned 14 years old she started spending a little more time the girls in our neighborhood and I started spending more time hanging out with the boys, whereas before we all hung out together in a group and spent our time doing competitive activities like hide and go seek, sports, teasing, and mock fighting activities like shooting water guns. So even though our neighborhood's culture mainly communicated and acted with what Tannan describes as a masculine form of communication and action, the genders eventually adopted their generic styles of communication and action (They talked more and we kept competing. Of course that's simplifying it, but that's basically what it boils down to). That's not to say that we became distanced from each other and unable to communicate, interact, or understand each other, but we just gravitated to what we were most comfortable with while still interacting with and keeping in communication with the opposite gender.