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Communication Sex typing that may accompany conversational style is debilitating. Everywhere you look in today’s society this is a constant occurrence. People perceive the way you look, dress, act in public and make prejudiced views on whether you are educated, hold a good job, are wealthy or rich, and how successful you are in life. I think that this is almost a social norm wherever we go. We all do this and maybe we don’t know we are doing this sub consciously, but we seem to make opinions about other people rather quickly without sufficient knowledge. Why do we do this? Right when we started school we learned much of this through our teachers, parents, and friends. Cheerleader = popular, pretty girl. Guy that hangs out in library = nerd. I can probably think of a hundred of these examples just because this is the way our society works. We were taught that way and we follow it. It almost seems sad that we lead our lives this way but that is the way our society has become. Gender stereotyping is a frequent problem of getting in the way of effective gender communication. We often don’t realize it but the way we communicate between genders plays a big role in our society. Sometimes men try to edge out women while conversing because the men feel like that they need to control or take hold of the conversation. Sometimes women do the exact same thing by being loud and obnoxious to get their point across. It’s almost like a competition of who can get their thoughts in the fastest way possible. Both genders in society today often hold preconceived notions of what a guy or a girl can or cannot do. I’m sure we have all seen examples of this constantly, either at school or at the workforce. I feel that there are three major aspects that play a role in gender stereotyping. First, our book discussed strategies. Often time’s strategies are used to persuade a conversation; exchange strategies, which offer doing one thing in turn for another, are often used in today’s society. There is several different strategies used in the book as well as this one, some people just use some more than others. Another aspect that plays a role in effective gender communication is your values. Your values play a big role in what you stand for and what you believe in. Values are what you perceive to be important in your life and how you will guide yourself to achieve your goals. Today’s values are especially different from values of the past and are always changing. One final aspect that I believe is critical to gender communication is your attitude. Everyone has their own unique attitude on how we look at things or handle certain situations. Attitudes also change just as values do as personal experiences grow. Obviously your attitude is going to reflect your personality on how you communicate in between genders. Many times gender stereotyping occurs because of the attitudes that people hold. Some people are very open that women today are changing and that their role in society is different from what it was 10 years ago. Look around today, we have women that are firefighters, in the navy, wrestlers, and pro athletes. Guys also have changed their roles. We have male cheerleaders, hairdressers, nurses, and stay home dads. This just shows us how we have changed to accept many things that weren’t socially acceptable before but are now. I think that these questions raised in this piece contributes to greater interpersonal effectiveness by making you think more before you make assumptions about other people. It makes you consider the way you act and how society controls your preconceived notions of other people. Even if this were pointed out to everyone that this is the way we are acting, many people would just move forward and go on with their daily routine. I believe that these questions need to be raised so that it can show us our values, attitudes, and the way we act in our society today. Bibliography:

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