Blog #18-I totally agree with you": gender interactions in educational online discussion groups

I found that this statement was interesting, "female-to-female interaction tended to be more positive than female-to-male interactions, suggesting that females were engaging in negative interactional strategies to a greater extent when in response to males, as opposed to females." I feel as though we do disagree with what males have to say some of the time and it is easier to hear what a female is saying...this being that I am female. We are more likely to agree and put positive comments on a discussion between women then on males. I am not sure why this is but I noticed it a lot just with our posts. I also noticed how the males would not agree with what the female was saying but all the females were agreeing with eachother.... Obviously this doesn't happen all the time but I think that it does the majority of the time.