StormShadow wrote:Women get all dolled up to compete with other women.
Thats like saying women buy $300 Versace shoes to impress men. Men dont give a shit. We cant tell Versace from Pay-Less. They buy stuff like that to rub it in other womens faces. Women hate other women.
I think there's an element of truth in that, though I wouldn't say women hate each other. I just think women are really competitive with each other.
I used to work with a bunch of guys in a small software house. A chick started work with us, and immediately went about trying to A. form some sort of coven of womanly solidarity with me *against* the guys, B. extract me from the boys' club, of which I was part, and C. make me over, i.e. make me more girlie, by offering tips of being more feminine and attractive (pffft!).
It made me very uncomfortable, and the guys were very aware that things changed from that point. She was a nice girl, but my impression was that she couldn't be one of the boys, so she was somehow feeling the need to extract me from my comradeship with the lads, so she didn't have to compete with the level of comfort I'd built up with them. She didn't stand a chance, being a very female female, but she had the upper hand over me when it came to being womanly, hence the attempts to create some kind of sisterhood with me. I left the job after a while of that, though not because of it. I visited a year or two later, after she'd also gone, and the lads had reverted back to their comfort zone, and were once more using rude system sounds, manly wallpaper, and naughty notices on the walls.
Woman are good at manipulating situations so they're more comfortable, but that's a womanly art I lack, so she made my life much less pleasant than it had been up until that point, despite being a very likeable and pleasant person. I understandably prefer to work with men as a result.
