I may be female, but this is no lie
Speaking of women being more verbally talented: apparently
we're better liars for that reason. (If only Clinton had been the first female president...) When a person lies, the number of pauses and "ums" and "ahs" in his/her speech goes up. In general, women pause less and use fewer "ums" and "ahs," which linguists think are
an unwitting running commentary on how smooth a person's train of thought is. This is the case if the woman is lying or telling the truth, which makes it harder to tell the difference between the two. No word on whether women actually lie more than men, though I have several friends of both sexes who'd love to have that argument with each other.
This could also have interesting implications for the idea that
women are more likely to fantasize about cheating when they're fertile -- wonder if they're also better liars than usual during that time. They'd need to be.
I'm also not sure whether it's ever been proven if men or women cheat more. If women are better liars, they would probably get away with cheating more often. (Female promiscuity is, of course, well documented among all sorts of animals, even those that pair-bond.) But conventional wisdom hands it to the men. Is that because women are actually just lying about it? Or is it really that men cheat more despite being less likely to pull it off? Any thoughts?
I realize this may provoke all sorts of anti-female (not anti-feminist) sentiment. Do your worst.