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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dawn seems desperate and narcissistic; Larson seems cliquey and plagiaristic.[/quote]

They both have their faults. One’s desperate for affection and validation, one’s just sort of cold.

Larson’s portrayal of Dawn as having White Savior Complex for donating a kidney seems misplaced and, almost a cliché or low hanging fruit, or is just wrong. But perhaps Larson’s upbringing as mixed race in a white community, and in the current era of racial reckoning or what have you, would have her instinctively posit that racial component to the donation. I don’t see where she used the kidney to gain racial points, but who knows.

I am a man writing this. Is this how women generally are to one another? Maybe it’s my sexism or sterotyping, but are women just mean to one another? If so, why? I’ve seen so much catty behavior over the years and this story is another example. Men are more straightforward with their interactions. I guess people view us as generally less emotionally nuanced, but Jesus, it seems better than sickly sweet backstabbing behavior like these two writers.[/quote]

I am a woman. I made it to a pretty far professionally. I usually would rather deal with men than women but just minimally. You aren’t wrong that women are frequently mean to each other in this catty way. Men tend to be more direct…unless they can’t get their way. Then they will resort to mind games.

I think the people that engage in those types of behavior are exhibiting their feelings of powerlessness, whether real or perceived.

But anyways, most women experience sexual harassment in the workplace. Many women also endure mental abuse from male partners. Outside of direct assault or stalking, isn’t most of that behavior by men towards women essentially catty social tactics and mind games? Maybe you don’t witness men doing it as much because you’re male?

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The entire framing of this dispute as a catty catfight is deeply misogynist and sexist.[/quote]

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