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calimary

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10. Well maybe you're just a more generous person.

Reply to brush (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 09:16 PM

Dec 2017

In my career, the biggest knife wounds in my back came from other women. Competing with me, resenting that I had X, Y, or Z job that they thought they should have gotten, or to which they felt they were more entitled. Kinda bewildered me - because I thought "hey, we're all starting to make inroads in this-here previously-all-boys club and shouldn't we all stick together and support each other? FUUUUUUUCK... I'm grateful I had the pleasure of working with some women who were just completely wonderful and supportive and funny and congenial. And there were men who were pretty lousy, too. You find all kinds, both the goods AND the bads. But the worst bullshit or duplicity or hostility I ever had to deal with came from another woman.

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Something I can not understand [View all] IMnotU Dec 2017 OP

Because lots of white women are idiots too and hate Hillary with a burning OliverQ Dec 2017 #1

That, racism, and somehow, inexplicably, self-hate too. brush Dec 2017 #3

I suspect a lot of it is jealousy. From what I've observed in my own life. calimary Dec 2017 #7

Great insight. I hadn't thought of the resentment factor, especially of another white woman. brush Dec 2017 #9

Well maybe you're just a more generous person. calimary Dec 2017 #10

Thanks. More info that many men aren't privy to. brush Dec 2017 #15

All so true, calimary. Control-Z Dec 2017 #12

You nailed it. DURHAM D Dec 2017 #17

Because racism isn't gender specific. CincyDem Dec 2017 #2

Tradition? Old habits and preconceptions? Hav Dec 2017 #4

There are so many fierce and fabulous white sistas but white women as underthematrix Dec 2017 #5

I asked this question often on DU this year. BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #6

Do you remember the women who wanted to repeal the 19th amendment? ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #14

If Phyllis Schlafly hadn't died a year ago BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #19

The Research Demonstrates the More Successful a Woman Becomes, The More She is Disliked dlk Dec 2017 #8

I certainly hope that women are not always expected to vote virgogal Dec 2017 #11

Because most white women tend to be republican JI7 Dec 2017 #13

... demmiblue Dec 2017 #16

White women are secretly jealous of her. Tatiana Dec 2017 #18

Because James Comey and the FBI deliberately set out to destroy her reputation with their lies. StevieM Dec 2017 #20

I Believe Hillary's Biggest Fault Is... JimGinPA Dec 2017 #21