Major Sources of Misunderstanding
Different ways of seeing the world are major source of miscommunication.
Members of one gender tend to think that polite verbal behavior is logical, natural, and right
while those of the other seem to be incomprehensible or strange.
This is the tendency of ethnocentrism.
The negative effect of this tendency is that people of one gender automatically take their own verbal behavior as the norm and view the world accordingly.
Because of the lack of knowledge of the other gender, people usually rely on gender stereotypes when they interact with people of the other gender.