Yostivanich

Tonight I want to dis­cuss some­thing that I noticed that I did today with­out even real­iz­ing it. I was read­ing an arti­cle today and I assumed that the author of this arti­cle was female, with­out even look­ing at the author’s name or any­thing. Once I real­ized I did this, the first thought was why it even mat­tered, but the sec­ond and to me the more intrigu­ing one was, Why did I decide the author was female?

This wasn’t an author I had read before, the author never came out and indi­cated gen­der in her arti­cle or even an occu­pa­tion that is pre­dom­i­nantly a male or female dom­i­nated career. Is there some­thing in the way that males and females, as a whole, write that indi­cates our sex, what about sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion or even what is our cul­tural back­ground. I do know that sci­en­tists who study hand­writ­ing, a field called graphol­ogy, imply that they can deter­mine a person’s sex based on the hand­writ­ing. But here we are talk­ing about some­thing that has been typed on a com­puter and even pro­fes­sion­ally edited. There have been a great many stud­ies that observe the dif­fer­ences in how men and women com­mu­ni­cate, but most of those have been in rela­tion to ver­bal and non-verbal, what about the writ­ten form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Is there a dif­fer­ence in the way that men and women write. This is an inter­est­ing ques­tion and one that I am not pre­pared to answer just yet. So I intend to research this some more, how­ever if you have any com­ments, post away and I will try to respond to your ideas about this issue before I next speak on it.