<p>Oy, communication and gossip are NOT the same things!</p>
<p>Yeah that’s why I specifically mentione- replace communication with gossip for GIRLS ;-)</p>
<p>Girls are good at more than just gossip
<em>hmph</em></p>
<p>Off course! I could stare at girls for hours 
They can be so amazingly cute at times :)</p>
<p>Oy. Go on any reality show and you’ll see guys gossiping a lot more than girls.</p>
<p>I don’t know how I should react to that, gary :S</p>
<p>And I SO agree with Quasi! :D</p>
<p>Girl power, tetris. Girl power.</p>
<p>(I don’t even know what that means.)</p>
<p>It means exactly what it should mean - take it in the literal sense. Female superiority :D.</p>
<p>And sugar and spice and everything nice.</p>
<p>It is sad that I still like the powerpuff girls.</p>
<p>Haha we all have our childlike pleasures</p>
<p>tetris, did you see that one thread that had this guy asking what the girls were like at 4 different schools? The response from UChicago was hilarious.</p>
<p>Reality shows? Well, considering Reality shows are the most unreal expressions of human behaviour, you are just proving my point 
@PPG- I admit I watched them as a kid too 
Still a disney lover! Zack and Cody etc. are awesome!</p>
<p>Come on, reality shows are not unreal expressions of human behaviour. They’re expressions of human behaviour at their most bestial - people give in to urges they suppress in real life and showcase their innate stupidity. </p>
<p>I admit it, I’m a bad TV addict. :P.</p>
<p>Disney comes in hindi here now. I was SO PO’d about that because I’m one of those weird people who can’t really speak hindi.</p>
<p>Cody is awesomer. :)</p>
<p>I’m a ‘TV’ addict. Not a telivision addict
Don’t bother to decipher what I mean. And reality shows don’t bring out your innermost. That would happen in a RL crisis for sure. But reality shows, you KNOW you are on camera, and try as hard as you’d like, but you can’t disregard that fact.
And yeah, they turned Disney Hindi here as well recently 
At least discovery is still English. I can understand Hindi in general, but not ‘vigyaan’.</p>
<p>thanks for the answer tetris (and the rest) I know I could ask the coaches, the problem is just, that they don’t really talk clear language. The sport is crew by the way. I am two times national champion for the under 18 category. Know I’m in the national team of switzerland. I think that helps. But I really wonder what I have to reach. Has anybody got an idea?</p>
<p>@gary7: While it may be true that girls gossip more than guys, one wonders how much of this is due to the fact that we’re born like that, and how much of it is due to the fact that people (both men and women) often feel the need to conform to a certain stereotype.</p>
<p>Basically, do you think that some girls may gossip a lot more (or some guys may act tough and macho) just because it’s what society expects of them? Nature vs nurture, in other words? :)</p>
<p>I think it depends, really. For example, I’m good at maths, physics, and programming, and I like to play video games such as Halo 3 and Gears of War. I can’t abide screaming kids, making small talk, and going “Aww… how cute!” at things like kittens and gurgling babies. </p>
<p>On the other hand, my ring finger is a lot longer than my index finger - and studies have shown that people like this are actually more aggressive and sterotypically “masculine”, and they earn more in certain jobs; something to do with the hormones we were exposed to in the womb. So I might just have been born that way. It’s interesting :). But I’d bet my eyeteeth that the vast majority of girls you hear gossiping wouldn’t do so if it wasn’t so stereotypically correct for them to do so. In the same way, I bet most people you meet don’t expect you, as a guy, to be that empathetic or sensitive.</p>
<p>python38: chill,relax 
gary was just joking</p>
<p>Thank you rt! But I’m glad that ‘joke’ evolved into such a meaningful discussion thanks to python
I’ve spent my life observing how human behaviour results from birth, social environment, randomness and other factors.
The most important conclusion is that most factors tend to multiply(not add up) That too, as the value of a particular factor goes on increasing, so does its exponent.
Its a difficult thing to express, and I’m sure I’m looking like a complete idiot now. But just my 2 cents…</p>
<p>Clarification- It WAS a joke! Most girls I know DO NOT gossip. As per the society giving impetus to gossipy character, I totally agree. I guess you are SUPPOSED to be exhibit ‘girl characteristics’ to fit in and be at social(and egoisitc) peace. Unless off course, you are the above average human who can handle standing out and creating your own mark by following self-ideals successfully(success again, not being determined by social standards here).
That brings me to another point. How would you define society? (Dare not open your E.Ed. textbooks)
P.S. I’m another ring>index. But From your descr. most boys would have it I guess?</p>
<p>Hey, national champion?! Wow! DEFINITELY contact coaches asap. They well be grovelling before you in no time :). If you don’t take that first step of shooting them an email with a short list of your achievements, then nothing’s ever gonna happen.</p>
<p>Haha my Hindi is decent enough for conversations and Bollywood, but that’s its limit.</p>
<p>A big at the gender stereotyping that’s going on!</p>
<p>Society is the world around me. Not just the people - the beliefs, the stereotypes, the…wars, the controversies, the everything of anything abstract and intangible actually. IMO.</p>
<p>Oh, ring=index for me :D</p>