Yeah, I knew that headline would get your attention. But according to one researcher, it’s apparently true. This article reads like a joke from the Daily Show. This is just too good to pass up. To use a “chick word,” this article is just “precious.”

From the London Daily Mail (yes guys, it’s okay to laugh hysterically through this article):

    WOMEN TALK THREE TIMES AS MUCH AS MEN, STUDY SAYS
    It is something one half of the population has long suspected – and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men.

    In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day – 13,000 more than the average man.

    Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat – and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests.

    The book – written by a female psychiatrist – says that inherent differences between the male and female brain explain why women are naturally more talkative than men.

    In The Female Mind, Dr Luan Brizendine (Note: Is this chick named after an allergy drug?) says women devote more brain cells to talking than men.

    And, if that wasn’t enough, the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high. (Note: Careful Tom, don’t say anything here. Just be cool.)

    Dr Brizendine, a self-proclaimed feminist, says the differences can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain.

    The areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all pared back the unborn baby boy.

    The result is that boys – and men – chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent.

    “Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion (duh), while men have a small country road,” said Dr Brizendine, who runs a female “mood and hormone” clinic in San Francisco. (Mood and hormone clinic? Is that like a heroin-equivilency clinic for women?)

    There are, however, advantages to being the strong, silent type. Dr Brizendine explains that testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing – allowing men to become “deaf” to the most logical (???) of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends. (Huh? What was that? Huh?)

Oh man. I just have to believe that this article is joke by the editors. But hey, it’s a serious newspaper, so I guess it’s legitimate for a guy to sometimes say, “That woman just won’t shut up!” Hey, don’t blame me. Blame Doc Benzine or whatever her name is. I forget. I wasn’t listening.