As Trish answered, I found myself discreetly taking in her impressive features. She stood about five foot eight; her flawless skin was the same color as rich cocoa beans and so smooth that it looked more like a sheet of dark brown silk poured over flesh than it did mere skin. Her deep, dark eyes were surrounded by lashes so long that they could have been stolen from mascara commercial. Her eyebrows were thin in shape, arched to perfection by some Korean who’d mastered the craft. Trish obviously had a weave, but it too was sheer perfection; the long, black strands floated down her back and stopped a few inches before her curvy waistline, making her look like a sun kissed Egyptian queen. After silently concluding that she was a gorgeous woman, I noted that I was still better looking than Trish in some ways. Why we women do this, I will never fully understand; we compare ourselves, constantly judge one another and then we develop insecurities that fuel the process of tearing each other down. I was wondering if men do the same thing...
Okay so that was an excerpt from a novel...While the storyline and characters are ficticious, the soul of the issues in the book are all too real... I couldn't help but to spend a little additional time thinking about the part of the excerpt that I highlighted in red though... I strongly believe that women tend to do that more than men. If you are a woman reading this, what do you think? If you are a man, do you or other men that you know do this? What do do you think about women doing that?
2 comments:
Men aren't all about brotherly love but we do for the most part have some form of other of mutual respect. So we are less catty with each other, men for the most part don't hide it if we dislike each other.
Women on the other hand tend to want to give the impression they get along. And are also far more territorial so that's another reason why women tear each other down whenever issues rise up.
Thanks for your response to this post... I think that you're right about some points that you made, however I think that men are quite territorial also...
Men are simple though; so that has a lot to do with why you all seem to avoid the cattiness. You guys don't trip on who's smile is whiter, muscles are bigger, haircut is better and so on...and those men who do tend to get stuck on those shallow things, usually have a lot of other feminine traits and or they're gay....Not that there's anything wrong with that...It just creates leadway for the scrutinizing behavior.
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