The keyword that you seem to strategically be removing is "typically". Yes, everyone has their own style of communication. From the article:
> Gender socialization helps explain these findings. “From age two or three, kids show patterns where little boys are more assertive and girls more indirect,” says Herring.
If we are going to discuss an article based on studies supporting the idea that men and women are raised to communicate differently, we have to accept that there is room for some generalizations with how people communicate.
I'm sorry but WTF does this even mean? Every individual person has it's own communication style AFAIK.