Jody of Steal the Bandwagon ponders an article wherein a 54-year-old woman complains that a mean clique of women at work won't eat lunch with her:
For all the sympathy I try to feel for this woman, I just can't do it. I want to feel bad for her, honest. I understand her problems; I am a woman and I have worked with women. We are mean, vindictive and cruel. We will snub you, talk about you, play office politics and will throw you under a bus just to see you bleed. We can be very emotional and very immature and did I mention, mean?
Her advice to this lady is both funny and sensible.
The post is so good, I'd like to blockquote the whole thing -- but I don't want those sleepness nights, worrying about Jody dumping my body out in the Everglades.
There you go, self-hating on womyn again. I'm telling!
Posted by: Bill from INDC at June 21, 2005 08:07 PMI remember a guy in my squad saying that if a guy gets mad at you, he'll blow up at you and then it's over; but if a woman gets mad at you, she'll bide her time until she can stab you in the back.
I thought, "Well...yeah."
By now pretty much everybody knows we have our own method of aggression.
Posted by: Donnah at June 21, 2005 09:33 PMBetraying the sisterhood!
Strengthening the chains of oppression!
I'm calling that Mediagirl blogger!
Posted by: Bill from INDC at June 21, 2005 11:40 PMWhen I'm in with a bunch of girls, I'm on the qui vive.
I haven't believed in the sisterhood since the Army, when I was in a brotherhood. It changed my views about a lot of things.
Thanks Donnah for the link ... and I haven't dumped a body out in the everglades since...well..nevermind about that. :) Don't worry, I wouldn't have been too mad about you blockquoting the entire article, I would've just held a grudge and talked about you behind your back.
Posted by: jody at June 22, 2005 12:42 PM