Blog Post #1

A short summary of the clip:
  The clip is a humorous take on the differences between female-to-female conversation and male-to-male conversation with regard to the exact same personal event. Rachel had just shared a kiss from Ross, and the girls got worked up and excited, making it out to be a major event and pressing Rachel on every single "juicy" detail on what occurred, to the humorous extent of "get(ting) the wine and unplug(ging) the phone". Rachel immediately became the centre of attention within the group and described what happened in a detailed blow-by-blow account. Ross, on the other hand, merely mentioned it in passing when the guys were having a take-out pizza and the guys displayed neither much interest nor enthusiasm upon hearing it and the conversation quickly switched to something else. The clip portrays that a kiss is an emotive and affectionate gesture of much importance and significance to the women and all in the group were fully engaged and listening attentively to tease out the full scoop, but to the guys, a kiss is merely a kiss and they weren't particularly interested in what transpired before or after that and were only minimally interested in what happened during that.

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  This clip shows a stereotypical account of how males and females behave, as well as how they communicate with one another in a group setting of people of the same gender. Women are portrayed to be more in-tuned with emotions and like to share details of intimacy to build bonding and rapport between them. The men, on the other hand, are seen to be more pragmatic and only wanted to know a couple of specific details that they believe are important to show "success" and "initiative" in a relationship (French kissing was a gauge of such triumph here). Men are also shown to be uncommunicative with regard to emotions and feelings and none of the guys asked Ross how he felt before, during and after the kiss or how Rachel reacted to it, unlike the women who bombarded Rachel with burning questions of the event.

  The take is rather humorous and is easily accepted by the general audience. Communication differences between the sexes is something they could relate to without much difficulty due to its perceived prevalence in most societies. In my opinion and observations, there are some truths as depicted in this clip as most sorts of male conversations are indeed of this nature, where things discussed are spoken, seen and determined as an entire package and the bottom line is sought immediately. Results are the important objects of speech and emotions are seldom discussed, if at all. For women, every single detail is broken down and analyzed, especially with regard to their personal emotions. They show interest in how others felt during an event and seemingly can "physically feel" what is being described to empathize with the person, or to be as happy and excited as she is. Conversations and discussions between them are peppered with other sensory perception like touch (how Ross touched Rachel when they kissed) and emotion (what Ross' kiss felt like - whether it was hesitant and shy or full of desire).