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more about #oversharing more comments → clevernamehere: A lot of the pieces people write about relationships strike me as huge over shared. I always hope their partners okay the material first, but a lot o... more » Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Men say they fear female "oversharing" because what they really fear is women finding out the crap their husbands/bfs pull are not isolated incidents,... more » OldTowneTavern: Spoken like a man who's never read Kevin Smith's tweets. That man will tell you everything you've never wanted to know about his marital sex life. I... more » Seize: Upon second reading, Mr. Felten's opinion is actually kind of fascinating. If we examine the basic assumptions of his peevishness, we begin to pick u... more » LilyBonesBurana: I think this guy is just ripping off McSweeney's! (click thru for a cheap laugh on this very subject of TMI) [www.mcsweeneys.net] more » Mushu_the_educated_whale: Can't we all just forget the idea that men and women conform to predetermined personality types? I am not one to discuss my feelings. My bff (also a w... more » Pavonine1: I have this strange notion that I cannot shake. I think the relationship world would benefit if we could put aside our notions of jealousy and fear o... more » pesematology: How about this: Pity the wife whose husband has done things that make him fear female oversharing? more » whats_in_a_name: Maybe I'm weird, but the idea of an ex-girlfriend or current girlfriend (if I had one) sharing details of our intimate life with her friends really do... more » ArtemChubarov: Someone explain this analogy to me, someone told me this after one of my exams. If dude has sex with 5 girls a week hes a hero. if a woman has sex wi... more » Uncommon Whore: Oh my. Quite the hearty, evil cackle came erupting out of me upon reading the title. Great article, Anna. I've learned to keep my overshare on an anon... more » poppypop: For every coffee klatch that "get together to talk about how their husbands haven't touched them in years." There's a Ray Ramano or Louis CK that have... more » funzette: Men's experiences are interesting to everyone, but women are only meant to share their narrative with other women. The false male-female binary rende... more » Cimorene: So, the word gossip is now a heavily gendered word, associated with the way women talk about other people behind their backs. It's petty, bitchy, and ... more » Scout: "Say what you will about the male half of the species-famous for its promiscuous and predatory proclivities-but they can be remarkably discreet about ... more » -
#hesaidshesaid
"Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
The news may be full of prominent men who couldn't keep it in their pants — but one Wall Street Journal writer thinks it's women's lips that need zipping. Because the real problem with modern marriage is the female overshare.
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#keepingupwiththejones
"I Hate Posh Women - They Are All So Stupid, Inept And Absolutely Filthy."
I decided, a few months ago, that it would take something truly outrageous to make me give any more press to unhappy professional oversharer and exhibitionist Liz Jones. This is what did it:
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#girlguytalk
Oversharing, Undersharing, And Why People Should Have Opposite-Sex Friends
Today's Wall Street Journal has a pretty simplistic take on how men and women talk about their relationship problems. But underneath the annoying Mars/Venus language, does the Journal have some (sort of) good advice about oversharing? More » -
#tmi
Tampons & Garlic & Discharge, Oh My! Graphic Body Talk Goes Mainstream
Today, Salon's Rebecca Traister explores the phenomenon of female writers' "graphic" accounts of the "messy realities of their bodies." Wait: Did someone say our name?!
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#tmi
Tell Me More! Why Do We Overshare?
In an interesting essay in the Sydney Morning Herald, Emily Maguire argues that not only have we lost our capacity for discretion, we resent it. Is oversharing the new etiquette? More » -
