Seriously, is there any doubt? Women don’t ever stop.
I find if I stard thrashing my arms in a manner suggesting a seizure, intrusive conversations tend to stop.
Women yap a lot, m’kay?
If a woman asks me to talk about my emotions (whatever they are) I slowly back off towards the front door as soon as I can. I think a man’s emotions in the hands of a woman are a weapon to be used against the guy. For marrage, whatever. I don’t mind talking about our relationship, but that’s about it emotion wise. Yes, I’m single. 
Am I the only person who detected some veiled (or not so veiled) misogyny in some of these posts?
I just realized yesterday that my cell bill will be (and has been) inaccurate now because I just remembered the times my wife forgot hers or her battery had ran out of power (hmmm, I wonder why?) and then she uses my cell phone. I realized this yesterday when we were coming home from her parents house, and then she wanted to call her sister. Her phone’s battery died, so I offered her mine to use. Our drive was 55 miles and she finished her phone conversation just 3 miles short of our house, which in turn adds 45 minutes to my bill and saves her bill 45 minutes for a differential of 90. This is by no means the first time or will be the last time that this will happen. So my cell bill would have been even more lopsided had she stuck to using her phone exclusively.
Chatty or not, I still love her too much to care…but I just wish that she would spend more time whispering naughty things into my ear. 
:dubious: I like how people just keep right on insisting that women talk more, on the basis of their one experience with their wife, or a few girlfriends, or whatever, in the face of the studies. I’m not saying the studies are 100% right, it just shows that people are determined not to be talked out of an opinion.
I’ll admit I talk more than my SO. So what? He’s the quiet one in the relationship. That proves nothing. My dad could out-talk any of us women.
I also wonder if it’s a concept of women being raised to be too polite to end conversations quickly. I know I feel like I need to listen, and that the other person wants to talk, so often the other conversation goes on much longer than need be.
I also wonder if it’s that women just feel more comfortable talking.
But I agree that all of the monologuers I’ve known have been men. Sit down in a bar sometime with a man that’s had an extra drink or two - he’ll never quit talking.
No, you’re not.
According to this most recent study, you’re all wrong!
I think I’m a tad more skeptical at how generalizable (is that correct?) college students are to the larger population than the researchers are, but there you go.
According to that well known “man with an extra drink or two at a bar” study.
What do you have against men drinking at bars?
It’s kind of impossible to know. You’d have to measure people across all situations, social and work, with the same sex, with the opposite sex, with social peers, superiors, underlings. At various ages, in different moods. And the subjects must not know that you are measuring their speech, or they will change their behavior in unknown ways.
I am prepared to believe that there are chatty individuals and quiet people, and also that people talk more when they are drunk. But a sex-based generalization on something as basic as talking is bound to be gossamer.
Why do you hate Americ…uh er, our God-given gender roles? 
CNN had a piece on this morning where a professor from Wisconsin(?) tried to debunk the study by sending out volunteers wearing wires to eavesdrop on people electronically. His numbers figured out to 16,000 words/day for men and 16,500 for women.
CNN’s reporter, the adorably androgynous Jeannie Moos, followed up with street interviews in New York, which is one place men and women do talk at about equal rates.
Yes, that struck me, too. You’d have to have some degree of verbal facility to get into college in the first place. So that study just shows that male college students and female college students talk an equal amount.