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[annerbhp]

I want to say something about the F word. You know the one I mean: Feminism.  Oh, has there ever been a term more misused and misunderstood than Feminism?  How often do you hear things like “Feminism is where men suck and women refuse to shave their legs, right?” and most recently “Feminism means being loud and bitchy and eviscerating people for

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[bristow1941]

Advocates of single-sex education tell you that girls are more cooperative, less catty, and more positive with each other without competing for the attention of males. Since it's really really hard to do an experiment where you can truly test this, I would say that's probably true from my personal experience of coed K-8 and a single-sex high school. But I'm not sure how much of it is caused by self-selection, stronger female role models, and massive amount of feminism hanging around. I think the tendency of feminists towards infighting is caused by more than simple competition for males, but the innate female desire for communication. Men, when gathered in groups, talk about rigidly defined public areas like sports. Women get together and start sharing about their inner selves, their lives, and how they feel. Actual research has been done by biologists and neuro-scientists that I'm too lazy to go and find to link to that describes these gender differences in male-to-male interaction and female-to-female interaction. Anyway, women just have more opportunity to judge each other because we share information about ourselves and our feelings than men. Men are equally like to be meddling and judgemental of how other men conduct their lives, they just don't get together in socially-approved of groups to discuss family, personal, and relationships issues at the same rate.(snark warning) Look at the pro-life movement - the movement is pretty balanced between men and women who think it's really really important to interfere in the personal decisions of women controlling their bodies. *wink* Okay, that was a totally gratuitous slam of the pro-life movement, but local fallacy of murdering someone to stop them from murdering not-yet-people has me super annoyed.