On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:14 AM, info at pulpculture.org wrote:
> And, I think it also comes down to style with, for example, the
> tendency to interrupt speakers being far more common among men and
> far more common by men on women (than women interrupting men).
Not to blame the victim, but don't women leave more interruption- friendly gaps in their speech, either with the interrogative inflection to a declarative sentence, or with invitations to phatic reassurance? Which men, of course, see as an opportunity to thrust their way into.
Doug