So it's currently 5 mintues to 1 am, and I have a final exam in 8 hours. I should be asleep. Or if I'm not sleeping, I should be studying, right?
Well, I was sleeping, but then a thought struck me, and it struck me so hard I was jolted from my nice warm waterbed. (Yeah, it's sexy.) I was pondering an old catchphrase from common society of a few years back... you know, all that promotional material about men learning to communicate. Well, I thought to myself, Men already know how to communicate, it's women that don't, ironically. If you consider communication to be the transfer of information, that's what men do when they talk, mostly. On the other hand, women mostly relate when they talk. I suppose all that gibberish, which has thankfully mostly faded, was really about two people in a relationship transferring information on how they felt about the relationship. Wait a sec... is that communication or relating. Here's the kicker: If it's done in a way that expresses feeling more than fact, it's relating. If it's done in a way that expresses fact, position, opinion, etc, then it is communication more than relating. Relating is more subjective, and communicating is more objective.
That's it! I've solved the battle of the sexes! Except... I think this whoooole thing was communication.... darnit.
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nice blog. I think you know my sister Heather. you left a comment on her blog. I think men not only communicate, but also relate, but in a different way than women do... and they don't relate with women in the same way women relate with women, and of course the converse. Men's relating occurs mostly non-verbally... I'm not sure how... I just feel like that's what happens. On the other hand, maybe women communicate (transfer of info) non-verbally. Well, hey, we're pretty much opposites.
I plead forgiveness for being confusing.
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