Grace Webb’s Reviews > Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language > Status Update

“When a man touches or says intimate things to a woman he doesn't know, there is an implication that he has an inherent access to the recipient's sexuality, which reduces her to a plaything and draws the focus away from any of her more relevant or impressive identities.”

one observation has remained rather constant: while men's speech style can be categorized as "competitive," women's is "cooperative." Analyze…dude-on-dude chatter and you'll usually find a dominant speaker who holds the floor, & a subordinate waiting for his turn. It's a vertical structure. But with women, the conversation is frequently much more horizontal & malleable; everyone is an equal player.“