Women spend hours every day gossiping.

No doubt related to women's statistically greater verbal intelligence

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Women spend hours every day gossiping.”

  1. I would just like to point out the list on the side:
    WHAT WOMEN LIKE TO TALK ABOUT AND WITH WHOM
    1. Shopping
    2. Diet and exercise
    3. Holidays
    4. What they would do with a lottery win
    5. Health worries
    6. Lunch
    7. Who’s seeing who
    It would seem the first thing that even begins to qualify as “gossip” actually comes in 7th on the list, and even then it’s more data then gossip.

  2. 5 HOURS? I haven’t gossiped for even 5 minutes today. Come to think of it, I can’t remember the last time I did actual gossiping. Clearly, I am way behind schedule and/or not a real woman.

  4. I used to love gossip no I try not to do that. I do fall off many times as gossip is hard to quit.

  5. >It would seem the first thing that even >begins to qualify as “gossip” actually >comes in 7th on the list, and even then >it’s more data then gossip.
    It’s a secular article. Therefore it’s using the fuzzy secular definition of gossip as ‘random nattering’ rather than the more precise theological definition of ‘unneeded, uncharitable talk about other people’.
    Beadgirl, I too am far behind on my gossip quota. Then again, as someone who lives alone and usually works alone, my oppotunities are limited !

  7. From St. Faustina’s Diary (#803)when she was in the hospital:
    “My room is next to the men’s ward. I didn’t know that men were such chatterboxes. From morning to late at night there is talk about various subjects. The women’s ward is much quieter. It is women who are always blamed for this; but I have had occasion to be convinced that the opposite is true.”

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