Originally Posted by
tropicalslavic
Generally. Obviously there are good and bad people of both sexes and all of our supposed tendencies have good and bad manifestations.
One good example is parenting groups. I had to leave all of the ones for moms - literally nonstop nitpicking, bullying, backhanded compliments, and generally acting like a gossipy middle schooler. Every parenting decision was up for debate to them. You'd post a cute picture of your kid in their new big boy bed, and you'd have a gorillion momzillas in the comments telling you that the wall decorations in the kid's room do not fit article 43 of the Bitchy Mom Group Act passed in 2012 to ensure baby safety and blah blah. Not kidding. I eventually left and realized that I'd rather ask nice women I know in real life whose families and lifestyles I admire... and I also realized how much of this shit just doesn't matter in the long run anyway.
I got one good look at dad groups. Obviously I'm not in them but someone showed me on their phone. It's literally just like this:
- "Hey guys, here's a picture of me and my son in an airplane, I took him on his first flight. He told me he had to poop at 10,000 feet."
- "Guys, look at my clean work truck, let's share work truck pictures"
- "Look at my son's birthday party!"
- "Do any of you guys ride motorcycles?"
- "I went fishing with my daughter this weekend, here's some pics"
...and not a single one of the comments on any of the posts I saw mean or bitchy or preachy. I got almost jealous but I knew in my heart that in a predominantly female group, you would just never find this "just hanging out and being supportive of each other and having fun" mentality. It was a purely wholesome group of people.
I remember asking a close male friend that day why he thought the dad group was so much nicer than the mom group. He has a theory that because women are the sexual selectors, they are inherently more judgmental. This can express as something good (being able to tell which guy is kind of shady and shouldn't be allowed around your kids or vulnerable people), or as something bad (being a huge judgmental twat about things that don't matter at all). And in the modern world, there simply are not enough problems (for people of either sex) for this judgment to often be applied to anything truly worthwhile, so catty low IQ women pick random cliques to join. Of course in this conversation we had different criticisms of how males function, but that is not the topic being discussed currently. The friend's other comment was that "women judge, men do" which is why women were looking for constant validation (judgment from other women) in the mom group, from women who they viewed as higher on the totem pole in some way (parental skill in this regard), and the men were just talking about stuff they do (work, hobbies, dad activities) without judgment.
A female friend commented on how every female text chat she ever had got so toxic she had to leave - this is also the same for me. I can have one close female friend, but every time it's three or more in a group, it gets weird. There's always some catty ringleader and bullying within the group. I do not have this problem with mixed sex friend groups.
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