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And since there was no MAN around to blame, it was "about defending your honor and your turf".
Riiiiiight.
Steven
Guerilla Gender Warfare is just Hate Speech in polite text
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Isn't a lot of feminism about not considering woman objects of possession?
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Behind this story is the way that girls commonly wage war against each other for the power that comes from relationships.
In these adolescent girls' friendship wars, the boys are in fact mere pawns and tokens (like poker chips) in the larger conflict, which is about establishing dominance in a social group of girls.
(From the article) -- "Lauren Abramson, director of the Community Conferencing Center, a Baltimore agency that resolves disputes through mediation, said one difference between boys and girls is that gossip is more likely to be at the bottom of a dispute between girls.
"Gossip as a source of violence is understudied and little understood," Abramson said. "But time and again, when we bring the parties together, get them to talk and dig into what started it all, it invariably comes back to something somebody heard somebody else said." "
(From Rachel Simmons' Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls) -- "Indeed, popularity itself is largely defined by the ability of one girl to turn her friends against someone else. If isolation is trauma for girls, there is power to be found in relationships. Having girls on her side offers a girl a sense of personal strength.
'It makes you feel more popular and like you have more power. You're in the right ... 'It gives you a feeling of security. If you know people are gathering on your side, you think, wow, I'm powerful. I have a feeling of power.'
So ingrained is alliance building in girls' lives that many I spoke with struggled to imagine life without it. 'You don't do it on purpose... It's your natural instinct. I tell other people and try to make myself look good.' "
Because of this relationship "combat training" that all adolescent girls practice, they have an entire arsenal of emotional and psychological weapons and tactics to adapt later on for the purpose of controlling MEN!
Guys are at a serious disadvantage in this arena, because so much of the female "way of war" is utterly foreign and even repulsive to men, who are brought up to respect codes of honor and loyalty. (Often through team sports.)
Honor and loyalty are the first things girls toss out the window in their friendship wars.
And because all their values are situational and contingent... having to do with what's immediately necessary... not what's RIGHT...
Well, there's one possible insight into the deceitful Machiavellian genius of FEMINISM!
"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear."
- Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
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by Anonymous User on 12:36 PM July 5th, 2004 EST (#4)
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Yep.
And, indeed, we do have a double standard, here.
If you'll notice, a man CAN NOT refer to his wife or girlfreind as "My woman". That is considered possesive and sexist.
However I can't count the number of times I hear women call their husbands or boyfriends "My man".
Watch ANY talk show, for instance. The term "My man" is used to the point of insanity.
Thundercloud.
"Hoka hey!"
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by Anonymous User on 02:18 PM July 5th, 2004 EST (#5)
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"Today, there is a dearth of effective female role models as the mothers who used to be there are forced back into the job market or get rendered ineffective through abuse of drugs and alcohol."
I'm surprised he wasn't flamed back to the Pleisoscene era for that one.
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(From the article--- comments in parentheses ( ) are my own...)
"Today, there is a dearth of effective (as in mature, rational, non-self absorbed) female role models as the mothers (remember that antiquated term?) who used to be there (back when getting and staying married was not politically incorrect) are forced back (as in having to seek their first paying job that doesn't involve extorting child support) into the job market or get rendered ineffective (as in choose to be crack addicts)through abuse of drugs and alcohol."
Man, is this the limits of academic bullshit alibi nonsense, or did I miss something?
"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear."
- Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
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