This is a clip from the hit show Friends. I absolutely loved this show and all of the situations that each character was placed in. This clip helps to show the gender differences between males and females when it comes to disclosing information and working on relationships with other members of the same sex. We can see how Rachel describes to Monica and Phoebe all the details between the kiss of her and Ross, while Ross just tells Joey and Chandler that he kissed Rachel, and that there was some tongue. This helps to show that women truly do disclose more information with each other in order to build up a better relationship and to establish a closer connection. It also helps to show how guys only reveal the information that will help to build their status among others.
“Women choose as their friends other women with whom they can talk freely and in whom they can confide. Many female-female friendships are expressive; they center around talk and develop from the sharing of self-disclosures” (Gambles, 150). Men do not typically talk about things that havve happened with them emotionally like a woman would. “Discussing such things may seem too feminine to males whom you will recall approach talk from a content rather than a relational perspecative” (Gambles, 154).
Michael W, Teri Kwal, Gamble (2003). The Gender Communication Connection. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
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