Vladimir—I’m puzzled about your book recommendation! It looks more like a self-help book for struggling couples rather than something addressing the concepts of (to use Cyan’s terms—thanks Cyan) explicit and implicit understanding.
A lot of people posting in this thread, and similar ones, seem to have an explicit understanding of sex (biological) and gender (cultural) differences, yet still offend and/or take offense when discussing them. To me that suggests that they don’t have implicit understanding, and that being able to articulate the differences isn’t much use to them.
Q#3, then:
If there really are two different types of “understanding”, exlicit and implicit, how do you turn the useless one in the useful one?
It looks more like a self-help book for struggling couples rather than something addressing the concepts of (to use Cyan’s terms—thanks Cyan) explicit and implicit understanding.
I think the recommendation was related to the specific situation being described, more than the general point about having understanding but not putting it into practice. But I’d be surprised if it doesn’t also address the latter point; it wouldn’t be very useful without it.
Vladimir—I’m puzzled about your book recommendation! It looks more like a self-help book for struggling couples rather than something addressing the concepts of (to use Cyan’s terms—thanks Cyan) explicit and implicit understanding.
A lot of people posting in this thread, and similar ones, seem to have an explicit understanding of sex (biological) and gender (cultural) differences, yet still offend and/or take offense when discussing them. To me that suggests that they don’t have implicit understanding, and that being able to articulate the differences isn’t much use to them.
Q#3, then:
If there really are two different types of “understanding”, exlicit and implicit, how do you turn the useless one in the useful one?
I think the recommendation was related to the specific situation being described, more than the general point about having understanding but not putting it into practice. But I’d be surprised if it doesn’t also address the latter point; it wouldn’t be very useful without it.