Auurgghghghg. After clicking through to read Sigourney's obnoxious quote, it unfortunately read as much worse than "mere" sour grapes. Trash talking. That quote reminds me of all the women I purposely avoid, and why I often find it hard to meet women peers who aren't trying to take me down a peg (in our competitive masculine academic world). Gah. I hate that kind of behavior.
The Tiger Beatdown post... oh yes, especially, "Women can be primary agents of enforcing misogyny on each other, and women can be supremely effective at eviscerating or draining or punishing other women’s confidence." Some time ago for an anthropology class, I read a book about matriarchal societies that still exist right now and -- surprising to me then -- the women engaged in serious amounts of trashing, controlling behavior, and general confidence beat-downs on other women (particularly younger) in order to keep girls/women in line. I was so disheartened after reading it...
Whooops! There goes my lunch break, reading all those links.
The Tiger Beatdown post... oh yes, especially, "Women can be primary agents of enforcing misogyny on each other, and women can be supremely effective at eviscerating or draining or punishing other women’s confidence." Some time ago for an anthropology class, I read a book about matriarchal societies that still exist right now and -- surprising to me then -- the women engaged in serious amounts of trashing, controlling behavior, and general confidence beat-downs on other women (particularly younger) in order to keep girls/women in line. I was so disheartened after reading it...