Not all women are catty. I loathe those types of women, as I know you do.
A male friend of mine said recently that women carry too much "baggage" around. Okay, probably true of many, but not all of us. I personally don't blame one guy, for the f*ck ups of another. I don't know why they always assume that.
I think it is true that a lot of women, myself being one of them, have very few really close female friends, mostly because I am very picky and weed out the superficial ones. But the ones I do have, like many of you gals here, are the real deal.
The only reason men resent women's baggage is they don't want to make room for it in their own U-hauls of past angst.