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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people here are using Queen Bee to mean a person with mostly positive characteristics. My understanding of the term is different and describes someone who hurts others to reach the top.

Generally, I avoid friend groups or am very choosy with what groups I join so as to avoid this.

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I have had many friends who are organizers and connectors and I've never thought of one of them as a "queen bee" even though they definitely played an outsized role in those social groups because they were more likely to host or reach out to people. I think everyone appreciated their contributions and it was never problem.

To me a "Queen Bee" is someone who makes people compete for her friendship and attention and "rewards" some people and "punishes" others based on how good a job they do of kissing her a$$. I have only encountered this one time in my adult life, in an extremely toxic workplace with someone who later turned out to have a personality disorder and was accused of harassment by multiple people at the company. A Queen Bee is a problem, not just someone who gets everyone together for a mom's night out every couple months or throws a great 4th of July party for the neighborhood in her backyard.[/quote]

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