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...along? But it is a message with enough of a truthful core that it struck a popular nerve at a very particular time: the early '90s, when it again became permissible for people to discuss gender difference. For this, thanks must be given to Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which perched on the New York Times best-seller list for close to two years before Mars and Venus came out (and for two years after...
...DEBORAH TANNEN Linguist and author, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation...
...pressed for an investigation of Tailhook, says she has been called the "Wicked Bitch of the West" for her trouble. T shirts trumpeting 1,952 Bulldogs and 1 Bitch greeted Shannon Faulkner when she enrolled at the all-male Citadel, where the mascot is a bulldog. Linguist Deborah Tannen, author of Talking from 9 to 5, says, "Bitch is the most contemptible thing you can say about a woman. Save perhaps the four-letter C word...
...should women be reduced to animals in heat for attending an all-male school or being the first woman to run for Vice President? "Bitch is the archetypal slur against the woman who talks with certainty, makes bold statements rather than hedged ones, acts with authority," says Tannen. "The reaction is, 'Who does she think she is?' and she will be disliked." While men have a wide latitude in how they behave in public, women still have to tread a tightrope. Mimic in the mildest form the behavior of a male colleague, and you will be sorry. I know something...
...Deborah Tannen's new book examines office genderspeak...