Posted on 11/13/2017 2:28:15 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Over in one corner sat Alice, a strong-minded 27-year-old who always said what she thought, regardless of how much it might hurt someone else. In the other corner was Sarah, a thirtysomething high-flier who would stand up for herself momentarily - then burst into tears and run for the ladies.
Their simmering fight lasted hours, egged on by spectators taking sides and fuelling the anger. Sometimes other girls would join in, either heckling aggressively or huddling defensively in the toilets. It might sound like a scene from a tawdry reality show such as Big Brother, but the truth is a little more prosaic: it was just a normal morning in my office.
The venomous women were supposedly the talented employees I had headhunted to achieve my utopian dream - a female- only company with happy, harmonious workers benefiting from an absence of men.
It was an idealistic vision swiftly shattered by the nightmare reality: constant bitchiness, surging hormones, unchecked emotion, attention-seeking and fashion rivalry so fierce it tore my staff apart.
When I read the other day that Sienna Miller had said there was no such thing as 'the Sisterhood', I knew what she meant.
I can understand why people want to believe that women look out for each other - because with men in power at work and in politics, it makes sense for us to stick together.
In fact, there was a time when I believed in the Sisterhood - but that was before women at war led to my emotional and financial ruin.
Five years ago, I was working as a TV executive producer making shows for top channels such as MTV, and based in Los Angeles. It sounds like a dream job and it could have been - if I'd been male.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Women are drama period
And now victims
We live in a fake bubble of reality were women think they are as capable or even more capable than men
It would be interesting to watch an all female version of Survivor to see how the interpersonal dynamics play out when basic needs are at stake, there is winner-take-all competition, and there are no men to blame.
Women are rewarded for playing victims.
Ahh.. the non-existent Utopia of a place controlled by women.
They seem to forget that women have claws, and that in order to represent the furies and the harpies, the greeks chose women :)
They also chose women as goddesses... vengeful, petty and jealous goddesses.
The image of a nurturing woman, working in harmony and mentoring other women is just a very small aspect of womanhood.
The title alone made me burst out laughing. I didn’t even need to read the article.
Isn’t that what the real housewives franchise is?
This fool obviously doesn’t have children.
She also ignored or overlooked the female fights and moral bullying that goes on regularly.
Stay at home mothers say working mothers neglect their children, while working women say stay at home mothers betray the cause and are poor role models.
If you don’t breastfeed, there are moral bullies that will lecture you for not doing so and hector you no matter your excuse - though they’ve never given birth or don’t work outside the home.
Hit toddlerhood, and women accuse others of child abuse for spanking or not feeding organic food to everyone’s children. “You’re giving my baby poisons!” Discipline your child for bad behavior, be told you’re bad yourself. Don’t discipline the child or not in the way others agree with, you’re abusing/neglecting the child.
If you can’t afford or simply choose not to constantly ferry your school age child to many different activities, it is called neglect - it is a failure to develop a well rounded child.
That’s aside from the liberal bullies who readily smear conservative women as stupid little puppets of their husbands if they speak up in public or traitors to womenhood if they are conservative on their own.
The evil of identity politics - you aren’t really a member of X group unless you’re liberal, so they abuse you the way they say conservatives abuse members of the group. They do what they accuse others of doing. And it is harsh, and has been for years.
The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/03/the-four-stages-of-conservative-female-abuse/
TLDR: If the ignorant fool had children, she’d know how mean other mothers are to each other and often wrap it in a moral mantle to make it acceptable.
Kind of like what social justice bullies do to everyone else, but for the sake of various oppressed groups instead of “for the children”.
However, it’s nice that the experiment has been tried and reported on.
I wonder if that would be true in a “real” workplace, not a TV company where almost by definition the people who work there are shallow, self-centered, and narcissistic.
Anyone out there with real world experience? I’ve seen small retail shops run by what appears to be only women. I imagine there are haircut and beauty shops that are women only.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again; I’d rather supervise 100 men than 5 women.
No.
They’re propped up by money and have men to blame.
All female situations get interesting when those two components are not present.
As a supervisor/manager the absolute worst time in my career was when I was assigned a room full (9) women to supervise. B$tches be crazy. It was non-stop drama and back stabbing. Took me six months and three terminations for “behavior” issues to straighten the department out. My next assignment was closing down a plant operation; that was a cake walk compared to the room full of women.
To stave off their fear of each other, women often try to bond together by indulging in vicious gossip about other women.
Many women are Joan Crawford, not Olivia de Havilland.
Speaking of Joan Fontaine and Joan Crawford, they were in a movie called The Women about this kind of behavior. I believe Stage Door. was another such movie.
I’m happy to side with Olivia in regards to that feud.
Having an all woman company deliberately, opens itself up to sexual discrimination lawsuits.
My wife has always said she'd rather work for most men she knew than most of the women.....
She has not watched any survival shows like Naked and Afraid, Naked And Afraid XL, or The Island season 2.
Why? I think they were both great actresses, but probably behaved less than admirably sometimes. Joan was bullied my the mother and the sister, and was the unfavored child.
Also, de Havilland has lived most of her life in France, and Fontaine was a loyal American until she died a few years ago.
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