Kate Fox Quotes

Kate Fox is a social anthropologist, co-director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. She has written several books, including Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.

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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

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- Time
- Men
- Women
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

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- Men
- Women
- Gossip

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

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- Different
- Women
- Gossip
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

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- Men
- Long
- Women
They're interested in developing this statewide and thought they would start with us.

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The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

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- British
- MAle
- Reticent
A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!

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- Change
- English
- Gradual
Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out.

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- Successful
- Brains
- Flirts

The effect would be that (the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality) could no longer assume discharge water of a certain quality is being put to beneficial use.

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- Water
- Assume
- DIscharge
After all, eating is natural, but we don't all have good table manners.

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