On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Aaron Malone wrote:
> Actually, thinking about this (and these observations are pre-coffee, mind you),
> my impressions are a bit different. Most guys (and a few women) I know have a
> tendency to do this, but not because they expect the rest of the conversants to
> defer. These kinds of people seem to view discussion as sort of a
> King-Of-The-Hill situation, where they make a grab for power (or whatever) by
> moving the focal point of the discussion to them, and the longer they keep it
> there, the more points they get.
Right. Thus the existence of trolls and trolling as rhetorical sport.
Anyhow, I think you're right -- I don't think men expect women to defer;
women are simply conditioned to. For this reason, in face-to-face
meetings, it makes it somewhat difficult when we're trying to stick to a
topic.
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