Feminist Disney, Mythcommunication: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer

Drawing on the conversation analytic literature, and on our own data, we claim that both men and women have a sophisticated ability to convey and to comprehend refusals, including refusals which do not include the word ‘no’, and we suggest that male claims not to have ‘understood’ refusals which conform to culturally normative patterns can only be heard as self-interested justifications for coercive behaviour.

I read through quite a bit of this article and it was actually very interesting so check it out!

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    This is important. Please read.
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    This is a really great article that I had to read for school and which prompted really interesting and often problematic...