It’s ‘common knowledge’ that women talk more than men.
Except we don’t. Women Don’t Talk More Than Men, So Why Do People Say We Do? (from Slate).
The problem with everyone saying women talk more than men, is that in certain situations women can get to feeling bad about saying anything at all. So let’s quit it with the ‘women are verbose’ jokes. Any joke based on an error of fact has no basis at all, and only serves to perpetuate false stereotypes.
In fact, I’d like to see an end to ‘women are X’ jokes, and also to ‘men are X’ jokes. Comedy requires more talent and originality than that.
See also:
- To Be A Woman And Speak Your Mind from Stacked
- The “Language” Gene and Women’s Wagging Tongues from Scientific American
- Men Talk More Than Women, According To Rats, from Lost At E Minor, in which rats are not people, but interesting nonetheless.
- “What Does A Woman Know Anyway?”: Sexism in debating from The F-Word, and more on sexism in top-level debating from The Guardian.
- “Out of the top 100 podcasts in their system, 71 are hosted by men (many by two or three men), 11 are hosted by women (of which three are just 60 seconds long), 9 are co-hosted by a man and woman, and 9 are either NPR or BBC news aggregation podcasts with alternating hosts and reporters, or it’s unclear who hosts.” – from Explore.
