>>I’m mildly surprised that The View didn’t collapse years ago.<<
Au contraire, most women, being highly verbal creatures, like the arguing, preening, talking over and insulting each other. Put 2 or more women together, and you get an argument with 18 opinions.
There was an episode of “Family Guy” where Stewie erased the memories of the four main dudes to see how they would react. After they had slowly figured out what their relationships were and Stewie restored their memories, he showed Brian a TV screen with three of the main women characters screeching and punching and pulling each other’s hair out. He said, “I thought I’d try the experiment on women, too. They just woke up two minutes ago. Haven’t even asked each other’s names yet.”