Or a hunger threat. A good example of this would be found at a Christmas party. Men and women have different reactions to being buttonholed this side of the shrimp bowl. Women, because they are basically decent human beings, will stand there with a saintly smile on their faces and wait it out. Please stop talking because I'm about to go into shrimp deficit.
Women are good at listening, and to their credit, are able to repeat conversation back verbatim.
Of course not. They have more sense than that. Most of the time they think you are either slow or haven't read far enough back in the newspaper. The real issue is not who listens more fully, but who believes what they hear. That said, keep the shrimp coming.