Spotted at the Malvern A & P Show by Te Radar.
Myth-busting the stereotype of the Chatty Cathy
Throughout history, women have always been stereotyped as the more talkative gender. People who talk too much are known as Chatty Cathys and there is no such thing as Talkative Tim. This stereotype of overly talkative, gossipy women mean women's speech is perceived
as more frivolous, compared to men — a "man of few words" is usually seen as a positive thing rather than stonewalling. Psychologist Victoria Brescoll says that "institutional power encourages men but discourages women from talking more, as powerful women fear a backlash that is absent for men when taking on a greater share of the conversational floor". This whole idea goes against the often trotted out fake-fact that women speak 20,000 words a day and men only 7000. Not true, this idea was spread by 70s evangelical Christian psychologist James Dobson, who theorised that because men come home from work and they've used up their entire word budget for the day and their wives are just rearing to go. In a huge analysis of all the studies on this, only two of 56 studies found that women talk more than men and that 34 of them said men talk more than women.
Before Trump and BoJo there was Idi
The advantages of political buffoonery ...
1) It leads opponents to underestimate the ability and intelligence of the buffoon.
2) It provides deniability — "it was only a joke".
3) It appeals to core supporters (many Africans loved Amin's teasing of the former colonial masters).
4) It serves as a distraction from the more serious, perhaps frightening or incompetent, actions of the leader, what we now call the "dead cat" tactic.
5) It leads to ambiguity (was it a joke or not?), producing confusion and uncertainty about how to respond.
(by Mark Loepold, author of a biography on Africa's most famous dictator, Idi Amin)
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