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In 1990 Deborah Tannen penned the article “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” for the Washington Post. Tannen is currently a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University where she writes academic, as well as popular, articles on communication—or the lack of communication—between the male and female genders. Additional works authored by Tannen include, That’s Not What I Meant! How Conversational Style Makes of Breaks Relationships (1986), You Just Don’t Understand; Women and Men in Conversation (1990), and I Only Say This Because I love You; How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships throughout Our Lives (2001). Tannen’s point of view in this article “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” seams to highlight that, fault falls on no one partner’s head; it is up to both to research one another and come to the reality that each one’s ways and means of communication are totally different form the other’s. Tannen argues that if men and women can understand their differences, they can do more to please and appease their partner. In her opening paragraph, Tannen tells of women’s group meeting in a “suburban Virginia living room—a women’s group that had invited men to join them” that she had partici