A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Vanessa Marin in which Vanessa and Xander discuss why men often fail to ask follow-up questions during conversations (especially about gossip). The clip captures a back-and-forth where Vanessa criticizes Xander's sparse follow-ups and he responds defensively/lightly.
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Xander, why do men not ask follow up questions? When you hear some gossip, we want the details.
Oh, man.
You are really bad at this. I'm trying to get better follow up questions. And then every once in a while, you will ask, like, one single follow up question. And you'll come back and be like, oh, I got the gossip for you. And you'll share, like, one tiny detail.
But it's not enough.
Like, oh, my God. Okay, so what about this? And you're like, oh, I didn't ask that. You're, like, so proud of yourself for the one question that you asked.
I mean, it's like, on the one.
Hand, it's like my.
Brain just doesn't work that way. Or at least like, not till later when I. When you say, like, oh, well, you could have asked this. You could ask that. And I'm like, oh, those are good questions.