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Reminds me of the stereotype that women will tell you something that happened in the most expansive way possible with all this context that doesn't really matte
by Sakos 4y ago
Reminds me of the stereotype that women will tell you something that happened in the most expansive way possible with all this context that doesn't really matter while guys will just tell you what happened.
- rjzzleep 4y agoWhere's that stereotype from? I always thought this is a basic cultural difference between people from Germanic countries vs. North America.
- soco 4y agoActually this might rather be coming from an autism spectrum. This work mate, a very fine programmer I must say, starts any point he might have with a few minutes long background presentation. I can't say that I get much value from that intro, but that's his way so I say let him have it. And we're never under that time pressure to need to interrupt him anyway.
- adversaryIdiot 4y agoyou're a good team player
- throwmeback 4y agosounds like me, but I have ADHD :D
- heleninboodler 4y agoI've heard the explanation that men just tend to prefer to think in more concrete terms. "What happened" is sometimes met with a detailed social analysis filled with motivations and states-of-mind about the story that unfolded and sometimes met with some cold facts about precisely what events occurred without any speculation as to why or what impact it had on people, and this tends to split along gender lines. The classic "what are you thinking about" works the same way. Women tend to be thinking about conceptual things like their ambitions or happiness or relationships, whereas men tend to be thinking about concrete things like that one cabinet with the loose hinges in the bathroom. This is, of course, not a universal rule. It's just an observation about tendencies.