Blog #5 West, Candace, and Don H. Zimmerman. “Women’s Place in Ever€yday Talk: Reflections on Parent-Child Interaction."

The article was very interesting. I connected with it a lot because of how much it had to do with parent and child relationships. I have always been and as a younger person been very accepted in adult conversations. My parents did not leave me out of many of their conversations like the article had mentioned and so I was open to many adult type conversations when I became older. I actually think it would be better for parents take their children out of adult conversations because kids take serious conversions very differently. I think they have to the tendency to take things worse than are and blame things on themselves and that is not ok.

Blog #5 Gender Bender

I thought that the actors in the skit did a good job of portraying the opposite sex. I cannot say that it is exact because everyone is different but in my experiences of being around men, it is pretty accurate. I was raised by a woman so I am a little more in touch with my feelings than the typical man. I am “feminine” in that way some might say. Most men are not, so I express my feelings more with the women around me like my mom, girlfriend and female co-workers. I think that men should be taught at young ages to be more expressive with emotions. Our society oppresses men’s emotions and that should be changed.

Blog #4, Tannen, Deborah. Chp. 2: "‘I’m Sorry, I’m not Apologizing.’"

“I’m Sorry” helped me to understand a little bit better the ways that men and women differ in conversation. The article also explained some interesting aspects of the American language, such as the cultural acceptance of the conversation piece, “sorry”. It is a word used habitually here in America, and this differs from other countries. I have heard that it is always not appropriate to sorry because when one is using the term, he or she is admitting guilt. I never thought about this and I thought it was interesting. Before I never took the time to think about what I was saying because the word just rolled off my tongue, but now I will put more consideration into the proper usage before I blurt it out.