The Difference Between Male and Female Body Language

 

Men don’t understand women. Women don’t understand men. To many, it is a fact that we need to accept. However, we can do so much more than just face and take this situation. We can try to understand one another. To do so, we should know what is behind the behaviour of the opposite gender. We can find out what are the causes of how or why women and men act the way they do. Why do men and women differ in how they behave? In other words, in their body language.

The Actions

Women are more sensitive than men. They are, in fact, very sensitive. They are “drama queens.” Men want to be in control always. They want to have their way and do not care about others. These are what we observe. These are the things that most women observe in men and most men observe in women. But, as mentioned, let us go deeper into these.

Behaviour and Its Purpose

The two genders differ in behaviour. But, this is not only it. They also differ in why they behave the way they do. It is not only the behaviour that is different. Their purpose in acting that way also differs. Most of the time, their behaviour is dictated by their purpose. One important factor in the difference in purpose is the genetic composition of women. In other words, their nature. By nature, they are different from men. Other important factors, next to nature, are learnings, experiences and culture. Further, the differences in the behaviour of the two genders have been affected by changes in the modern times. This is especially so for women. Their gender, as a group, has started to develop the tendency to be assertive and to dominate, in general.

Physical Communication

Men and women have different ways of communicating physically. They differ on how they send and receive communication using body language. Because they are more sensitive, women are generally better in sensing what the actions of men, and even women, say. All the more they can detect whether there is something wrong or there is something up by comparing what the person says and what are the actions of the person. On the other hand, men are generally less skilful than women in using body movements to help in the way he communicates.

Cause

The difference between the way men and women behave and communicate through body gestures can be attributed to how they think, literally. One specific instance is that women use up to 16 different parts of the brain at the same time when they receive or accept messages, vocal or physical. On the other hand, men use only about 6 to 7 at a time when doing the same activity. But this does not mean that the more parts you use, the better. Neither does it mean the opposite. Not one is better than the other. Nevertheless, it means that there is really a difference right from the start.

Communication = Understanding

Even before learning that men and women really think in different ways including how we use our mind in receiving and sending body language and processing them, we have already known that the two different genders really act and think differently. And we have already accepted this fact. And now, we know that there is really a difference in how the mind of men and women work, literally, differently. Now we already have two foundations on which to build the understanding between women and man. Let us use these two: the acceptance of the difference and the knowledge of the possible causes of the difference, to enable us to understand each other more.