Linguistic gender bending

[sawyl]

In a review of Deborah Cameron's The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, Steven Poole comments:

In the end, the most economical disproof of big theories about innate differences in language-use is that things are actually the opposite way round in other cultures. The men of the village of Gapun in Papua New Guinea prize indirect and subtle speech, while the women practise a form of highly abusive monologue called a Kros. As Cameron comments: "In Gray's terms, Gapun would seem to be a place where men are from Venus and women are from Mars." She is to be applauded for having resisted the temptation to conclude that [John] Gray is from Uranus.

I'm definitely adding this to my ever-growing to-read list.