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Originally Posted by urgeok2
until recently - girls weren't encouraged to participate in team sports ...
(its changing though and you can see the positive effects)
but my wife works in a mostly female environment and man are they fucking nuts .. fighting all the time, one camp against the other - people taking sides, back stabbing.
i'm not saying there arent guys that do this but they seem to be the minority - and are not popular people.
I'm not talking about superjocks here ... i'm just talking about guys who learned about teamwork at an early age and brought the positive aspects of that to everything they did later.
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I don't know about participating in team sports (which I did... hmm... ok I see your point a bit better), but I do know that women have always been competitive, although for different reasons today. And the reason is men.
And here we are again... back full circle. And it doesn't just happen with the 20s or 30s, although it's more frequent in those age groups. I'm talking 60 year olds trying to compete with 40 year olds, etc... We've been taught that we're not worthy unless we can capture men's attentions and favors. Our only validation comes from a guy's approval. These are ideas that are still perpetuated today and are evident everywhere, even in this damn forum. That's the way it goes. Except women, instead of revolting together against these dangerous thoughts, we lash out on each other.
See? Man-hating dykes and hardcore feminists had it right all along. :p