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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm troubled by the fact that you think this is unique and intrinsic to women. What you're describing - a dynamic where women are mean, toxic shrews and men are cool and "chill" - is so regressive and anti-woman that it feels like something you'd hear 20 years ago.

My guess is that you're giving off "I'm not like the other girls!" vibes that other women find offensive and off-putting. I love women and I'm certainly not going to forge a relationship with someone who thinks women suck and are inherently inferior to men. [/quote]

Not prior poster, but I'm a feminist and have seen this in every neighborhood I've lived in. Women are still raised to be pitted against each other. Watch some reality tv and see how it happens in every place. Women are still penalized for being direct so underhanded behavior is the way so many women deal with their issues. [/quote]

Women raise themselves to be that way. Blaming men is a cheap excuse. [/quote]

It's an everyone thing. Women are definitely the main enforcers of these dynamics, but men benefit from it. It's all in service to patriarchy.

Something a lot of people don't understand is that women work HARD to reinforce the patriarchy. And women are misogynists. We perpetrate and are harmed by it. It's one of the ways that sexism is quite different from racism. Women buy into this idea that if they can just win the competition to be the best woman (pick me), then they can bend patriarchy to serve them. And some small number of very privileged women actually do succeed in this, generally by attaching themselves to a powerful and desirable man, usually by being physically attractive as defined by men, and by being very smart and socially savvy while also pretending not to be. And they generally win by screwing over other women.

It sucks but it's also how the world works.[/quote]

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