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Old 06-02-2009, 03:58 PM
 
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But ... but he said that it was empirical that the cute little girl would turn into a nasty she-devil! That sounds awfully scientific!
No offence to the social scientists on board, but what's deemed empirical in the world of psych can change from one anecdote to the next.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Rockland County New York
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Those poor, victimized men, falling prey to vicious homewreckers.
Julia the men she slept with were filthy dogs the same. Same goes with men. As a man in my twenties we help developed the MILF. Some of my friends slept with married women to prove themselves in bed and show they could oust the old lion and take his place in his bed. One friend of mine was a real Latino Don Juan and at the place we worked got two married women pregnant.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:08 PM
 
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Research suggests that it's due to competition for a mate: http://tiny.cc/dvEWu

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female social aggression among reproductively viable females is usually interpreted as a form of mate competition. Hess and Hagen, for example, suggest that the sex differences uncovered in their study would likely have been even more pronounced in a younger group of participants. Evolutionarily, historically and cross-culturally, they point out, girls in the fifteen- to nineteen-year-old range would be most actively competing for mates. Thus, anything that would sabotage another females’ image as a desirable reproductive partner, such as commenting on her promiscuity, physical appearance or some other aberrant or quirky traits, tends to be the stuff of virile gossip....
Why are some women so mean to each other?



DUH! And NO ONE ELSE IS???????



REALLY ????


ONLY women are mean to each other?????


Men are never mean???
What planet are you on???
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Rockland County New York
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Why are some women so mean to each other?



DUH! And NO ONE ELSE IS???????



REALLY ????


ONLY women are mean to each other?????


Men are never mean???
What planet are you on???

Men are just as mean to each other because they want to hook up with a female who is fertile and mate with her. They compete for her affection. The whole idea of being Macho was showing women they are tough enough to protect them and physically appealing to mate with them.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh's 'EAST SIDE'
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I find women who are 'mean' to other women, for no apparent reason, are just unhappy individuals. I run into quite a few of them in the spots I frequent. Looking me up and down, rolling their eyes, whispering amongst their other unhappy co-horts, giving me attitude when I'm trying to get past after saying 'excuse me', so on and so forth. I've been dealing with it all my life, and it amazes me the number of women, who are GROWN WITH KIDS, who still act like this. They're just unhappy for whatever reason, and instead of trying to find out what the root of the problem is that is causing them to be unhappy, and fix it, they find it easier to take their frustrations out on other females, who appear to be happy and have it goin' on.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Beautiful New England
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Men are just as mean to each other because they want to hook up with a female who is fertile and mate with her. They compete for her affection. The whole idea of being Macho was showing women they are tough enough to protect them and physically appealing to mate with them.
Men are driven by evolutionary biology to compete for women, just as women are driven to compete for men. But the inter-gender competition among men manifests itself in very different ways than amongst women. Research suggests that women often compete by way of personal degradation of other women while men, I think, more often compete by way of physical (or psychological) domination over one another.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:54 PM
 
Location: Rockland County New York
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Men are driven by evolutionary biology to compete for women, just as women are driven to compete for men. But the inter-gender competition among men manifests itself in very different ways than amongst women. Research suggests that women often compete by way of personal degradation of other women while men, I think, more often compete by way of physical (or psychological) domination over one another.
That was always my understanding.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:55 PM
 
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I completely agree with Braun.

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No offence to the social scientists on board, but what's deemed empirical in the world of psych can change from one anecdote to the next.
Ha ha Who?Me? You are so humorous but your satirical humor is very true and makes a very valid point.
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Why are some women so mean to each other?



DUH! And NO ONE ELSE IS???????



REALLY ????


ONLY women are mean to each other?????


Men are never mean???
What planet are you on???

They do?
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Men are just as mean to each other because they want to hook up with a female who is fertile and mate with her. They compete for her affection. The whole idea of being Macho was showing women they are tough enough to protect them and physically appealing to mate with them.
I have experienced the exact same junk as Mizz Pittsburgh.
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I find women who are 'mean' to other women, for no apparent reason, are just unhappy individuals. I run into quite a few of them in the spots I frequent. Looking me up and down, rolling their eyes, whispering amongst their other unhappy co-horts, giving me attitude when I'm trying to get past after saying 'excuse me', so on and so forth. I've been dealing with it all my life, and it amazes me the number of women, who are GROWN WITH KIDS, who still act like this. They're just unhappy for whatever reason, and instead of trying to find out what the root of the problem is that is causing them to be unhappy, and fix it, they find it easier to take their frustrations out on other females, who appear to be happy and have it goin' on.
I thought your research was on political voting patterns. I'm assuming you are now earning a doctorate in Dr. Philology. So what's the difference between "personal degradation" and "psychological domination"? Those sound synonymous to me

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Men are driven by evolutionary biology to compete for women, just as women are driven to compete for men. But the inter-gender competition among men manifests itself in very different ways than amongst women. Research suggests that women often compete by way of personal degradation of other women while men, I think, more often compete by way of physical (or psychological) domination over one another.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:56 PM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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Julia the men she slept with were filthy dogs the same. Same goes with men. As a man in my twenties we help developed the MILF. Some of my friends slept with married women to prove themselves in bed and show they could oust the old lion and take his place in his bed. One friend of mine was a real Latino Don Juan and at the place we worked got two married women pregnant.
All right, I'll put my hackles away.
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:57 PM
 
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Why are some women so mean to each other?

Because there is only one women and so many women. All women all over the world one mission in life is to have me show up on my white horse and whisk them away. So they will claw their way to get a shot.
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