OK, WHATS THE FUSS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL 'FEMALE LANGUAGE'?
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Series Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman OK, WHATS THE FUSS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL 'FEMALE LANGUAGE'?
Series Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman OK, WHATS THE FUSS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL 'FEMALE LANGUAGE'?
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OK, WHATS THE FUSS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL 'FEMALE LANGUAGE'? Posted on May 8 2008 at 2:17pm by I've got to say that I don't think there is a special female language! Some women are open and some men are open and it all depends on your upbringing. I think the idea in FLYING is totally false that there is a 'women speak'. I liked the film but not because I subscribe to that! 
RE: OK, WHATS THE FUSS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL 'FEMALE LANGUAGE'? Posted on May 9 2008 at 8:54pm by As a man, I am not sure I agree with you. Sometimes I watch my wife with her girlfriends and I envy them -- the way they talk, what they reveal, their physical closeness. Even I think - "I am an open man" – I can never speak like them. my wife asks me to, and I just can't. Even I am a 'liberated man', I was still raised to be a boy and boys don't show their feelings! It's painful sometimes. I feel trapped in the cage of masculinity (which is ironic because Jennifer talks about being trapped in the cage of femininity!).
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RE: OK, WHATS THE FUSS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL 'FEMALE LANGUAGE'? Posted on May 14 2008 at 3:10pm by I have to say I agree with you, girlboy. I grew up in a family with five sisters and I was the only boy. We didn't do much chatting in my household. To an outside observer, it might have seemed like we weren't open with each other, but we were! We never hid anything from each other, we just didn't like to overanalyze things. We were taught that sometimes things like feelings weren't important in the grand scheme of things - or that they were your own problem and it would be inconsiderate of you to burden others with them. I don't know maybe I am off the mark on this one, but in my experience there is no special communication between women. RE: OK, WHATS THE FUSS ABOUT THIS SPECIAL 'FEMALE LANGUAGE'? Posted on May 14 2008 at 3:30pm by You are off the mark, clinch. There is a special way women communicate and Jennifer captured it - in my experience your sisters would be the exception and not the rule. I think you would be surprised if your sisters watched Flying - I bet you would realize that they have always spoken that language with other women and amongst each other. I don't mean to say you weren't close with your family, but there are different ways of communicating with different people, and I bet they communicated with you in a different way than each other. There are certain feelings that I think are innately female, and we all talk to each other through those channels.