Sunday, July 08, 2007

women's words?

a us survey recently analysed the commonly-held belief that women talk more than men do. while the results showed that is basically not true, the bbc has come up with a list of words that women were more likely to say than men. here is a selection from that list:

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

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

Conventionally attractive: Preceded by "well I suppose she is...", a phrase women often use to describe those who actually are

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

Agony aunt:
When men seek answers to life-changing problems in magazines, it tends to be under the headline "plasma or LCD?"

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

Concealer

Why: As in "why do you never call?"

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