Laura Sessions Stepp

Oh, this article pissed me off this morning.

Which, considering the author, is not exactly surprising.

Let's summarize the article below:

Women Talk Too Much
by Laura Sessions Stepp
Conventional wisdom says that girls talk more than boys. I believe conventional wisdom is usually right. After all, just think of any high school cafeteria anywhere. You'll always hear the girls complaining about their latest school, diet, or boy troubles. In fact, you could even say, "While males tend to think their way through problems, females tend to talk their way through."* If you don't believe me, ask the 2 college students I interviewed for this article. (You might remember them as the 2 college students I interviewed for my groundbreaking piece of investigative journalism, Unhooked, a book describing the "hook-up culture" that I argue is pervading college campuses everywhere, and ruining our young girls' chances at ever finding meaningful relationships. What hath feminism wrought?!) They are experts on the conversational patterns of males v. females. After all, one of them's female, and the other is male! How much more expert can you get, people?!

Since my modus operandi is to repackage conventional wisdom with shiny new labels saying, "IT'S SCIENCE," I will now proceed to do. William Doherty agrees with me, and he's a professor. Ignore the fact that he hasn't done any peer reviewed research on this hypothesis, because he has a PhD. Or consider this: Alice Rubenstein is a clinical psychologist and she agrees with me too. She wrote a book for popular audiences called, "The Inside Story on Teen Girls." That's kind of like doing real research, isn't it? And if that isn't enough for you, consider that Louann Brizendine agrees with me. She's a neuropsychologist, and she wrote a popular book about gender brain differences. Never mind that she's been repeatedly discredited or that she's since rescinded her widely quoted assertion that women talk more. No, she said it once, and she used big scientific sounding words, so it must be true.

In conclusion, I am full of bullshit. The end.

*actual quote. boys think. girls talk. presumably mindlessly. boys are smart and girls are dumb. the end.