After all, eating is natural, but we don't all have good table manners. |
Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out. |
Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback. |
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves. |
Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. |
The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments. |
The effect would be that (the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality) could no longer assume discharge water of a certain quality is being put to beneficial use. |
They're interested in developing this statewide and thought they would start with us. |
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining. |