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To: tbird5
Being nasty to each other is one of the unspoken rules about how girls and women are supposed to behave; one of the rigidly enforced North American standards of what constitutes femininity.

Horse Hockey.

It is the synergistic effects of bad behavior, female ease with practicing flagrant duplicity, and the dissonance that comes from outright refusal to accept responsibility for ones actions despite all evidence.

9 posted on 03/06/2006 11:20:22 PM PST by papertyger
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To: papertyger
that comes from outright refusal to accept responsibility for ones actions despite all evidence

It isn't a refusal in the strict sense of a determined decision. Rather it is based on the feminine ideal of "not being there" as a finite, defined identity. Only such identities can be responsible because that is how one gets to appear [to oneself at least] as someone. If you are not "someone", there is no question of responsibility or accountability.

Women [especially] are caught in the dynamics of the back and forth of the evidence that they do appear as "someone", "that one", vs. the innate sense that things are just happening, like in a flowing river; and they are not "actors" or "directors" or "agents" causing things to happen. It is much easier to see others as the agents or causes of the problems and difficulties. Seeing oneself as a "subject", a "self", is particularly hard. It is so counter to the innate sense of how things are or should be.

21 posted on 03/07/2006 4:36:33 AM PST by ontos-on
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