I like women - why do we hate each other?

[spiderslegs]

Stop with your bitching my friends.

Really.

Too much opprobrium.

LovesTheJennaMarblesTiggaxx

The best way to be is indifferent- hate implies that you care. It's bloody hard though. I hate one person and he's an ex. I'm working on indifferent.

Women are totally fab. We do bitch but by god- we are good at it! We can alos be tremendously supportive of each other.

I dislike women who don't like other women. You know the ones I'm talking about.

I never think of it in terms of MN because who knows if posters are women are not?

I can be a bit of a misanthrope but I do think that bitchyness between women is fuelled by the patriarchy. Magazines etc tell us how we should look and that we are nothing without a man. If we all realised that this is bull (although it is perfectly natural to want a sexual partner) then we would all stick together a lot more. I alos think that it is fairly natural to feel threatened by 'competition' but some of my favourite women are a lot more beautiful and succesful than me. I admire them; I am no competition for them so no need to bitch!

I feel much more intensely about the women I know than the men. I saw two long-term friends this weekend. God they're incredible. I love every bone of them both. They're funny, talented, morally admirable, with so much stamina they could wrestle racehorses. One of them has a daughter. She's pretty incredible too. Two of my more recent female friends helped me out in serious ways this weekend. i could kiss both of them. I could spend hours listening to any of them talk.

Men.... I don't really have any male friends. I like men but in a much cooler more distant way. Men seem to need a lot of support. They're needy, moody, emotional, a bit fragile. TBH they often seem a bit weak to me. I guess I get out of my relationships with men what I put in.

I agree joan. Most men I've happened across simply have nothing like the personality, humour, kindness and complexity of the wonderful women I know. Of course because of this I have never been tempted into a close relationship with a male (friendship wise) so maybe they're more interesting under the surface.