To think I've forgotten how to interact with other women.

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I've just been to DDs friends kids party. A sea of women all chatting away (I am a 41 year old female myself).

They were all in little cliques and I couldn't face trying to get into one. No one invited me in either. I had a very quick conversation with one woman and that was it, before she wandered off to speak with a group of others.

I work in a fairly male dominated environment and think I am just more familiar with interacting with men. They talk more loudly and slowly and deliberately (generalisation I know) and I can follow their topics of conversation more easily. They are not bitchy.

I ended up striking up a conversation with one of the dad's whose wife and I are organising an event with. a group of 3 mum's (who had previously ignored me completely) now looked over and gave me awful deadly looks like I was trying to chat him up or something (I genuinely had no interest whatsoever and was just trying to kill time).

AIBU in thinking I have forgotten how to interact with women or is this just a particularly carry group of women?

But “bitching” or “moaning” has nothing to do with sharing feelings or “showing weakness”. It’s a character trait that you find across the sexes and it’s not unusual to get a thread in Relationships along the lines of “he is ruining everything we do as a family with his negativity”. But it seems we are determined to interpret the same behaviour as unacceptable from women but understandable and acceptable from men, perhaps even to be encouraged!

You are talking about something completely different - start your own thread about men sharing their deepest feelings and ebcouraging them to go to the GP. That has nothing at all to do with this thread.

OP if it's any help I'm same as with you, worked in a male dominated environment, with professional qualifications more usually found amongst men. Really struggled to understand the mechanics of more female dominated/ mostly female environments.

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I know 2 bitchy Mikes!

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