my response to "Can't We Talk?"

I found the article engaging because of the way Tannen structured it on the familiar examples and then built a catagorization of gender differences explaining those examples. This made the article very accessible and even entertaining, in a way that first building the categories and discussing them in the abstract would not have been. Having said that, I do have some problems with accepting the dualities she proposes as universal (despite her disclaimer at the start of the article). But as an introduction to her ideas written for a general audience, I think it "works."