Women irritate me (vent)

[Anonymous]

I am a woman, but for the most part I hate hanging out with other women. The majority of women I encounter are insufferable. They are needy, have unrealistic expectations of you, and have no yet perfected how to be independent. They also have not learned how to enjoy time alone with themselves. I know this is not ALL women, but it is a lot of women. It's maddening. Men are so much simpler. I envy the way their friendships work at times.

[Anonymous]

Poor you, generalizing falsehoods and idiocies.

Continue like that, you might get a job at the White House!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a woman, but for the most part I hate hanging out with other women. The majority of women I encounter are insufferable. They are needy, have unrealistic expectations of you, and have no yet perfected how to be independent. They also have not learned how to enjoy time alone with themselves. I know this is not ALL women, but it is a lot of women. It's maddening. Men are so much simpler. I envy the way their friendships work at times.

Perhaps the majority of women you encounter have a low tolerance for sexism and misogyny. I certainly hope so.

[Anonymous]

The older I get, the more I love my women friends. I’m sorry that you don’t have that—it sounds lonely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a woman, but for the most part I hate hanging out with other women. The majority of women I encounter are insufferable. They are needy, have unrealistic expectations of you, and have no yet perfected how to be independent. They also have not learned how to enjoy time alone with themselves. I know this is not ALL women, but it is a lot of women. It's maddening. Men are so much simpler. I envy the way their friendships work at times.

Perhaps the majority of women you encounter have a low tolerance for sexism and misogyny. I certainly hope so.

I like some women but I really can't stand the ones who use the term "insufferable". Men don't do that.

[Anonymous]

In all honesty, you are the one with the problems, OP. You’re trying to start a vicious thread on this sad little forum because your little life is so empty. You aren’t provocative - you are pathetic.


You need help, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In all honesty, you are the one with the problems, OP. You’re trying to start a vicious thread on this sad little forum because your little life is so empty. You aren’t provocative - you are pathetic.


You need help, OP.

Which we won't provide, since you put our back up.

[Anonymous]

You are oversimplifying male friendships. Give men more credit for being capable of subtle emotions, conflicting feelings, and other forms of relationship complexity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are oversimplifying male friendships. Give men more credit for being capable of subtle emotions, conflicting feelings, and other forms of relationship complexity.

+1

OP is insulting men.

[Anonymous]

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like other women. Agree with PP that what OP describes is a lonely way to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a woman, but for the most part I hate hanging out with other women. The majority of women I encounter are insufferable. They are needy, have unrealistic expectations of you, and have no yet perfected how to be independent. They also have not learned how to enjoy time alone with themselves. I know this is not ALL women, but it is a lot of women. It's maddening. Men are so much simpler. I envy the way their friendships work at times.

Perhaps the majority of women you encounter have a low tolerance for sexism and misogyny. I certainly hope so.

I like some women but I really can't stand the ones who use the term "insufferable". Men don't do that.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't put it as strongly as you have, but I hear you. I have had (and do have) close women friends in my life, but I find it much easier to be friends with men. I was raised in a family of boys (cousins, too), and I find them much easier to be around. When I was in college, I was the one girl that was invited to the boys' poker night. It worked out for me, because I went into an industry that was dominated by men, and it didn't bother me to be the only woman in the room.

FWIW, in my career, I have been known for promoting and mentoring women. I like women; I just find many women exhausting when it comes to personal relationships.

[Anonymous]

I think women are more complicated than men, on average, but it doesn’t bother me.

- a woman

[Anonymous]

If all of your interactions and friendships with women end badly, there's only one common denominator and that's you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't put it as strongly as you have, but I hear you. I have had (and do have) close women friends in my life, but I find it much easier to be friends with men. I was raised in a family of boys (cousins, too), and I find them much easier to be around. When I was in college, I was the one girl that was invited to the boys' poker night. It worked out for me, because I went into an industry that was dominated by men, and it didn't bother me to be the only woman in the room.

FWIW, in my career, I have been known for promoting and mentoring women. I like women; I just find many women exhausting when it comes to personal relationships.

I too find friendships with men easier, or should I say interactions. As a married woman I try not to develop any deep friendships with men because they too easily transition into more than friendships... btdt. But I too chose a male dominated field and often I am the only female in a room of 20. Anyhow, I do have close female friends, but they are hard to find.