Sunday, July 8, 2007

46 Words Women Might Say, Men Probably Wouldn't

    what women talk aboutFrom BBC

    Researchers in the US have laid waste to the long-held belief that women talk more than men.

    But the survey did find that female subjects get through an average of 16,215 words a day, compared with their male counterparts' 15,669, a difference of 546.

    So what might those words be? The Magazine has consulted a handful of females, and come up with a few suggestions of words - 46 to be precise (listed below).

    • Book club: A female dominated affair, perhaps because women read more fiction, or perhaps because men aren't very good at talking about it
    • Accessorise: If men were ever to use this word it would only be in the context of cars
    • Body image
    • Empowering: Men never use this word, perhaps because for the 200,000 years humans have been on the planet, men have had all the power
    • Burlesque: Something involving strip-tease that can apparently involve the above
    • Size zero
    • Home birth
    • Pilates: Men in the UK, particularly, seem to have no interest in building up their core strength
    • Pomegranate: Men seem ill-equipped to understand the significance and full range of superfoods
    • Cellulite
    • Absolutely beautiful: The words women often use to describe friends who are not
    • Conventionally attractive: Preceded by "well I suppose she is...", a phrase women often use to describe those who actually are
    • Jesse Metcalfe: A walking Athena poster, see above
    • Footless tights: Strange idea, strangely popular
    • Breastfeeding
    • Emotional intelligence: Something that men usually do not possess, instead preferring the kind of intelligence that involves dates of battles
    • Kitten heels: Or indeed heels of any other kind
    • What are you thinking?: The classic female condition check
    • Feminism: If even veteran feminists can't agree on what this means then it's probably best avoided by men
    • Afghanistan: A place where the debate is rather starker
    • Agony aunt: When men seek answers to life-changing problems in magazines, it tends to be under the headline "plasma or LCD?"
    • Airbrushing: The process by which magazine picture editors oppress women in an underhand way
    • Flexible working
    • Handbagging: As in new Commons leader Harriet Harman's request to Theresa May not to savage her every Thursday
    • Beefeater: The first female one made her debut this year
    • Babies
    • Superwoman
    • Ms: Extraordinarily, the battle continues for women to be allowed to avoid definition by their marital status
    • Middleton: As in Kate. Style icon or harassed paparazzo target?
    • Concealer
    • Why: As in "why do you never call?"

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