Testosterone Poisoning; Part One

Rex Harrison played Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor, who sang (or just voiced) the lyrics, “why can’t a woman be more like a man” in My Fair Lady.

Deborah Tannen’s 1990 book, You Just Don’t Understand, also looked—from the perspective of a linguistics professor—at the conversational impasses that keep men and women from “getting” each other’s me…