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>>This is fascinating guys! Have you ever read the books by
Deborah Tannen (spelling of name?) about communicating between
men and women? She says that men tend to communicate based
on status and competition and women based on cooperation and
building relationships. Each of you demonstrates these concepts
beautifully.
Well, that's one perception. Isn't it possible that Robert's suggestion also
suggests an element of cooperation? Perhaps its simply a matter of cooperating
according to different values. If these values are gender-based, then the
competition/cooperation dichotomy would be illusory and symptomatic of the
real issue--separate value systems.
BTW, not all men operate under that status-competition value system.
Bill Burns *
Assm. Technical Writer/Editor * "Purgamentum init,
Micron Technology, Inc. * exit purgamentum."
Boise, ID *
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