Who Cares?

"A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000" (Mehl 557).

As I read this so-called "fact," I feel as if I'm reading complete gibberish. 

We all talk-- it's a part of life. Who cares if I talk more than the person next to me? Who cares if I never stop complaining or ranting; it's just who I am and I can't help it-- but it's certainly not because I am female.

Whoever came up with the erroneous idea that women talk more than men is obviously a person who equates one's gender with their personality, two ideas in which correlation does NOT mean causation. A human's personality grows and becomes their own, which includes how he or she behaves, learns, and of course, talks. It is unfair to find coincidences throughout our daily lives and place a label onto groups as a whole based on what we think we see and understand. 

This is exactly what always happens to women-- we are constantly being stereotyped with several, and annoying, reputations such as being needy, weak, and in charge of household duties (raising children, cleaning after men, etc). I am so sick of being treated as inferior to men, as if I can't handle myself all alone in this judgmental world. The constant stereotyping of women needs to come to an end, so we can live in a place where a comments such as "Oh, she's a girl be nice" or "Of course she did, what a girl," cease to exist.

And going back to the whole "who talks more thing," I can assure you, I know PLENTY of guys who talk way more than me, and that's saying a lot because we all know I am a chatty one. 

But then again, who cares?