| OP, it's just that it's so exhausting and hard for the rest of us when you walk into the room and all the conversations stop so that we can all just gaze at your beauty in awe and wonder. Often, I can't remember what I was working on because I am so awestruck and then I can't get back to work for quite some time. And when our male colleagues are reduced to blubbering lumps of dough merely by the slightest glance by you in their direction, they can't get any work done either. We all just get so sweaty and hot and bothered that it's difficult for any of us to function. We know that you can't help looking like a goddess but it does inconvenience those of us who are mere mortals. |
That attitude is exactly what I mean! If you change the description of a womans appearance from attractive to extremely short or tall, homely, fat, or dark your mean spiritedness is more apparent. It's bullying. |
| OMG, OP, all women are mean to all women. All people are mean to all people. Toughen up and stop looking to highlight ways that you have it so rough. |
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Wtf planet are you on? No all people are not mean to all people. |
Not the pp, but DC has been the meanest place I have ever lived. |
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There is 1 beautiful mom in my sons grade.
I met her around 3rd grade... Our kids were never the in the same classes and she has girls. I said, "Hi nice to meet you,so ... Who do you normally hang out with"... Translation... Who do you drink wine with? She said, I don't really have many friends at school. Me: " shunned for being to beautiful, no worries you can be friends with us, nobody is jealous of us and we are jealous of nobody." Her: "what?" Me: your so pretty people hate you. nobody want to stand next to you it makes us look frumpy, but I am fine with frumpy. We have been friends ever since. She posted a FB picture today from spring break and she looks better in a bikini than her 12th grader. |
I don’t see how that response was a “mean girl” response. If anything, your response was inappropriate. Personally, I have never seen beautiful women held back in their careers because of their beauty. The few extraordinarily beautiful women that I have known all benefited from their looks. |
The issue isn't career advancement, it's about bullying. |
+1. I worked with two women here who were pure evil. Not just nasty or bitchy, but evil. |
True there is no city with more Type A competitive women than DC. It's a cruel place. |