Thank you, southernhybrid... To be clear, I am not saying that women can not be leaders or are not leaders.. I am only hosting the discussion about the article and offering observations. I appreciate your contribution.
I will say this. Sometimes women aren't as supportive of each other as we should be. We need to learn to be more like bonobos and less like chimps.
When women unite, we can be an incredible force. So watch out!
When men get together socially, they call each other, "Boss".. "Chief".. "Brother"... "You the MAN! NO.. YOU the MAN"
When women get together socially, they call each other, "Bitches".. "Slut"..
Maybe start with that?
Was that serious or were you joking? When southern women get together, we call each other honey, or sweetheart. And, black southern women usually refer to female friends as love or baby. I have a few black friends that have called me love or baby. I don't remember even being around women who called each other bitches or sluts. If you're not joking, is this a generational thing or a regional thing?
My husband said that when men get together, they call each other bud or by their names. ( I just asked him ) I thought Bro was urban slang term, mostly a black man thing. Or have white men appropriated the term too.
But seriously, my female friends have never referred to each other or any woman as a bitch or slut. There have been a few times when we might refer to some hateful woman as a bitch once in awhile when gossiping, but I've never heard anyone use the term slut to refer to another woman. And, to be honest, most of the women I know don't use the term bitch to describe another woman. And slut? Are you serious? That term is so old school and foreign sounding to me. Is this a regional thing, maybe?
Maybe I just have too much class to think of other women in the way you've described.
Do you honestly know women who talk that way to and about each other?
Now that I think about it, it's the men who are often sluts.
As a woman I promise you that is true. Otherwise, we wouldn't have to deal with getting hit on by those sluts throughout our lives. Yes. Well into old age, women get hit on by male sluts. Okay. I'm going a bit off topic. Sorry about that......