To not bother making friends with women any more because they're too bloody bitchy

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Went out for dinner with new work colleagues (all temps) and one woman who has been nice to me all week just turned on me- sniping about everything I said/dirty looks.
At one point we were talking about money and I said I'd like to work in banking/brokering so I could earn alot quickly and pay off my mums mortgage and she could retire. She said 'don't pretend you're that kind of person dinky, why do you act all sweet all the time? You don't have to sugarcoat everything like an x factor story'
she's only known me a week! Grr
then sniped at me being excited about new tv- it'll be the first brand new one I've ever owned and I only mentioned it once.

I act confident but I'm really shy and really want to make more female friends but I just can't stand it!! Grr, it took alot for me to work up the courage to go out, I just want to hide in my cave again

I only have a handfull on female friends much prefer male company.

stupid keys!!

handful of female

I have worked in areas which are male dominated my whole life, and imo men are far bitchier in a serious way than women.

For the record, I am not the OP (note the key "s" distinguishing our names). But OP YABU - sounds like the women you went out with were bitches but not all women are bitchy, some are sensitive friendly and fun people who are on your level

mm, I do think that women are capable of a whole new level of bitchiness.

I have a frenemy who has done a lovely number in "poor me, someone has really hurt my ickle feelings" whilst hinting not very tactfully that it is me who has allegedly hurt her...

I haven't, she just doesn't like me but can't get me out of her social circle without playing the sympathy card. (mutual friends)

In actual fact, it's her that has been spectacularly bitchy and untruthful. But heigh ho, not alot to be done about it unless I start a big hooha.

I do find it very hard to make friends, particularly because I have little free time and I hate talking on the phone so I understand how disheartening it is when one person disrupts a social circle that you are trying to build.

Don't give up on women in general though, some are ok.

I hate going shopping with other people, but that is by the by.

YABU Op, you can't judge all of us by one numpty alone. If someone is that rude to you then I would always call them on it. I am the type that would do it there and then, but talk to her afterwards if you are sensitive more polite about it.

I am tending to agree with you more and more op. My problem area is the school gate. Funnily enough it's the mums of the girls that are the worst. In my DSs Y2 class there are some pretty bitchy girls by all account ( accouns of some of te Mums - my DS has never mentioned anything) and the Mums seem even worse, bitching about each others daughters and each other. I've started arriving just in the nick of time to drop and run and getting back ever so slightly late, in order not to have to wait and listen to it all.

I think when women are being really bitchy it says more about them than it does about us.
I'm not perfect; I'm not out to bitch but sometimes I get drawn into gossip.
People can be really mean- sometimes I feel sad about it but most of the time I just pass them off as insecure/insensitive and move on. Best thing to do is stand up for yourself and develop the attitude that you don't give a fuck what they think. Why give a shit what someone says about you if they are nasty?

OP,of course YABU

One horrible woman does not = all women are bitchy.

As for all this mean aren't bitchy bollox - what a load of nonsense, men do it all the time. Some of the worst "bitches" I've met are male.