Herring does make a good observation about both male and female communication but in the end i would have to disagree. I have to agree with what a lot of people have said and that men and women have a different language depending on the situation. If they were having an online chat with their friends that were men and women it would be different than a chat online with men and women about academics. She says that male style is characterized by adversarialty which are put-downs, strong, and contentious assertions. While female characterstics are supportivness and attentuation. These to me are sterotypical and Herring should have looked deeper into more online discourse communities.