Talk:Social skills

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Contents 1 Rewrite 2 Rewrite 3 "Verbal communication" re Rewrite Rewrite... 4 Stuttering 5 This made by flesh creep 6 is there a 7 this page does not need a rewrite! 8 What does this mean?

[edit] Rewrite

This page needs a complete rewrite and overhaul. It's simply a list of four bullet-pointed sentences that don't flow well together, and all the points could use much more coverage. Szyslak 22:47, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

Basic rewrite, the article is still in list form but expanded and a few links were added. Still needs work. JollyJeanGiant 01:34, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

-- This article is completely useless. It either needs a major rewrite or deletion. Also, what on earth are "muscle words?" It sounds like someone just made that up. Paultopia 14:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC) Same question, someone define muscle words pleaseKenallen 06:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

My guess is that "Muscle Words" was the name the writer gave to words that would help exclaim a statement or idea, like powerful adjectives to add intensity to a statement or idea. Does that make sense? -- BW

Someone should specify whether "muscle words" imply active voice. Kenallen 00:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

"muscle words": seems like it needs a TM or ®, like it's taken from a commercial course or book. --Winkidinki (talk) 15:27, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Verbal communication" re Rewrite Rewrite...

As an engineer (heh heh heh...) who has actually worked on my social skills ...

The big red flag I saw with Sharing of Jokes and other sharing, is that they should be Appropriate Use of Jokes, Appropriate Topics of Discussion, or some better terminology. (Trust me, humor tends to get mixed reviews in social contexts...)

I do not think this article is quite THAT useless, but it certainly needs better paragraphing and eloboration (and Wikification...)

Thank you for your time.  :-) Bwefler 20:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stuttering

Logged out to protect anonymity, what's the odds of getting any consensus on the stuttering reference being removed? Many stutterers have excellent social skills. I have a stutter myself, and am personally very offended by this. 82.152.193.74 22:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This made by flesh creep

What an insincere calculating oily creature the person with "polished social skills" seems to be! We might call him Tony Blair. Honbicot 22:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] is there a

"pretentious crap" template?Rich 16:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for my above rude question/remark. Someone has put thought and hard work into this article. The problem might be that one editor has an abstract animal behaviorist point of view, while a different editor is writing for us humans. Anyway, the article is depressing. It might make a Martian wonder why anyone should spend time learning social skills. I put a cleanup tag on it just now.Rich 23:30, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] this page does not need a rewrite!

I thought it was written in a very sensitive and mature manner. In a, er, socially skillful manner. What it does need though, are reliable sources. Peer reviewd journals, books on social science, whatever. It is a little unorganized but it can be easily fixed. One topic it neglects though, is how "social skills" may be misused in a bullying context.

For instance; a person may be accused of "lacking social skills" right? They may be perfectly polite, perfectly gentlemanly (or ladylike), etc, and the general excuse for mistreating them is "lack of social skills" when, the real reason is because, say, she is morbidly obese. That is, there seems to be a lot of childish, immature people out there, who use the lack of "social skills" terminology in a derogatory manner, when the real reason a group of people mistreats or rejects another, may be malice paired with arrogance.

That is, its not so much a "lack of social skills" which isolates some individuals, so much as the prejudices, immaturity, and malicious arrogant behavior of some individuals. Of course, that is only a phenomenon seen in western culture, or for that manner any culture where people take excessive, almost arrogant pride in their heritage. To cut white people some slack, middle easterners often tend to be far more arrogant. In those cultures, the arrogance can be intolerable in some people.

Still, the neutral, almost cold manner this article was written does deserve praise. All it needs is some slight organizational editing, and the addition of sources.

206.63.78.76 22:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)stardingo747

[edit] What does this mean?

"Some believe that social ineptitude should be accommodated, not exterminated." I don't see any efforts to "exterminate" social ineptitude. Can somebody clarify this or remove it?