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male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication. culture is simply a network of habits and patterns gleaned from past experience, and women and men have different past experiences. from the time they’re born, they’re treated differently, talked to differently, and talk differently as a result. boys and girls grow up in different worlds, even if they grow up in the same house. and as adults they travel in different worlds, reinforcing patterns established in childhood. these cultural differences include different expectations about the role of talk in relationships and how it fulfills that role.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?