{"id":3950,"date":"2013-05-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"blue-pink-gray-matter-in-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/blue-pink-gray-matter-in-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-Gray Matter and Pink-Gray Matter in Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Effective communication between men and women has always been a issue of contention.\u00a0 Let’s look at why that is.<\/p>\n

In the 1960\u2019s what is now called Second Wave Feminism began to build up steam as it tried to tell the world that men and women are \u2013 apart from some reproductive organs \u2013 identical.\u00a0 This movement took up the mantra of the First Wave Feminists, which began in the 15th<\/sup> century, that women should have rights and opportunities equal to men.\u00a0 And indeed they should and great strides have been made on that front.<\/p>\n

The second wave added the ideology that men and women think just alike.\u00a0 In the 1970\u2019s gender neutrality became a big issue, and has had major repercussions in our society ever since. Aside from divergent physiology, says this theory, a woman is simply a man with a keenly honed fashion sense, and conversely, a man is just a woman who can’t dance and refuses to dust.<\/p>\n

More recently people are again deciding that while all citizens deserve equal rights, opportunities and treatment, men and women do indeed have differing thought processes.\u00a0 Many books have been written on this subject. Here are just a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n