{"id":659,"date":"2006-09-23T05:56:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=659"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:58:09","slug":"who-talks-more-men-or-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/who-talks-more-men-or-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Who talks more, men or women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003607.html#more\">If you answered &#8220;women,&#8221; you need to read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This topic is of ongoing interest at Mark Liberman&#8217;s Language Log blog; <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003419.html\">as he notes here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There certainly are psychological and neurological differences between men and women, sometimes big ones. But even when they aren&#8217;t promoting their ideas on the basis of &#8220;facts&#8221; that are apparently false, authors like Sax and Brizendine use a set of rhetorical tricks that tend to make sex differences seem bigger and more consequential than they really are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sax is Leonard Sax; he wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/35lYXQP\"><em>Why Gender Matters<\/em><\/a>, which posits that men are &#8220;emotional children;&#8221; Louann Brizendine wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2QGygRy\"><em>The Female Brain<\/em><\/a>, which asserts a slew of biologically-based differences between the brains of human males and females.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you answered &#8220;women,&#8221; you need to read this. This topic is of ongoing interest at Mark Liberman&#8217;s Language Log blog; as he notes here: There certainly are psychological and neurological differences between men and women, sometimes big ones. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/who-talks-more-men-or-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}