- Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
If women and men can't get along, blame it on gender bias. If women and women can't get along, blame it on ego, obstinacy, high-handedness, loftility...need I go on?
Hardly any situation can exist without a certain degree of discord. In a way, that's fine, because it adds variety and spice to an otherwise monotonous existence.But when the same discord threatens to break up the very fabric that weaves us together, it moves out of the 'variety zone' and travels into the 'resentment zone'.
New ideas, opinions, judgements are all fine...within limits and when they do not spill put of hand.
But put a bunch of women in a room, ask them for their opinions on a subject, and stand back. Chances are you may just miss being drowned in the tsunami of the response. And I mean tsunami in the full essence of that word- violent, unexpected, unstoppable. That's how most reactions are to any situation where women alone are involved.
The basic premise behind this volatile situation is that women can't stand each other. Why?
It seems to me that women don't like each others' successes. They delight in finding fault, proving their point and are in a constant battle to present their one-upmanship (or should that be one-upwomanship?). Ask them what makes them jealous and you are most likely to hear that they don't like the way their neighbour's life is happier, fuller or more satisfying(although you will never actually hear that from any woman;)!
I have a 2 year old baby girl. My biggest concern now is, will she too grow up to be one of us 'women'? Or will the world be a more open forum where views can be expressed without anger and annoyance?
Somehow, I hope it all works out in the end.I can do without all the resentment and the negativity.
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