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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never- have you been in the workplace, kids sports, PTA... basically any adult group?  The mean girls still show their claws.  The adult version mean girls are Karens and they are everywhere.[/quote]

This is what j thought when j read the post.  Women in my area/school/community activities can be brutal as well.[/quote]

Really? How? I can honestly say as a 40 yr old adult woman, I have not experienced any behavior from another woman I would describe as brutal.  Sure, some are more friendly than others, but brutal, mean, catty? No. [/quote]

And of course your experience is universal.
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Ok, then explain how random women acquaintances that aren’t even your friend, but you loosely know of through activities are “brutal” to you? [/quote]

Not the same PP you are responding to, but one who agrees that women - even random acquaintances - can be brutal to one another.  I am almost 60 and have seen this twice in the past couple of decades.  Once was the volunteer board of a small nonprofit in my community and once was a PTA.  I was the target in one instance, but not the other.   They were different groups of people, but the aggression was eerily similar.  In both cases, the "brutality" included attempting to have someone arrested (falsely), trying to get someone fired from their job, falsely accusing people of crimes (with no evidence), publicly making terrible accusations about people (as in, standing up publicly in a board meeting and reading a list of serious but baseless accusations), physically threatening the person and even some pushing and shoving (one-sided, by the aggressor), and spreading the kind of vicious rumors that could cost people their livelihoods.  It was shocking, even after I'd seen it already once before.  I'm talking about adult females, moms and professional women, attacking other adult females.  And in both cases, no one had done anything wrong, and the disagreements were over such petty issues that it doesn't even bear explaining.  In my opinion, it looked in both cases like a group of women attacking other women for sport.  It was like a cruel game to them, but for the targets, it was an experience so traumatic that some of them sold their houses and moved out of the community.  So yes, adult women can be brutal.  And if you're thinking you have to be someone unusual to be targeted, you'd be wrong.  Some of the "victims" were incredibly successful, well-liked, and highly respected in the community.  In both of these instances, few people outside the immediate circle knew what was going on. So yes, it can happen to you, too.  [/quote]

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