Body Language is only part of a Conversation

            I found this weeks assignment to be a lot of fun and very enlightening. I must cconfess that I cheated just a tiny bit. I asked around for some suggestions of half hour sitcoms that were not aggressive, rude or violent. I was very little television and I specifically do not watch the news. I did not want to be caught off guard by watching something that was violent or negative. So, having said that I watched an old episode of Frasier. There appeared to be three main male roles and two women who were involved more than other characters. One man clearly appeared to have a job at a radio station with one of the women. The rest of the show had the characters in a home and at a coffee shop. Maybe the other women is one of the two middle age men’s wife, because she is always at the house with the older man (dad, uncle?). There is a lot of body language happening in this show, along with lots of facial expressions. I was told it was a comedy but to watch it without words it appeared to me that these people were angry a lot.

     So, after watching again I realized that there is a lot of sarcasm in this show. I was right the one guy (Frasier) was a radio host and one of the women (Roz) was his producer. The older man in the house was his dad and the second women was a lice in physical therapist/house keeper. The second middle age man was Frasier’s brother. The show really was cute and I have watched other old episodes and have really enjoyed it. Turns out all of the arm flailing and expressions were to add to the humor of the show. I miss guessed on the physical therapist/house keeper completely. Which makes me feel better because I felt sad that she seemed to always seem to be on the outskirts of what was going on. It really brought attention to the fact that just paying attention is not enough. If we don’t really listen and hear what is being said we stand to really misinterpret and misunderstand what the other person is attempting to tell us.