The "B" Word

I agree with you. It really bugs me when a woman knows what she wants and she is labeled this. I think name calling is immature and shows no class. Shame on women who feel threatened to retreat to this low attempt to gain some sort of power.

KarilouMomof2 is a discussion leader for arizonamoms.com living in Tempe. Her daughters are 9 and 6.

I think it's sad women treat each other so terribly at times. The Hillary arguments should be about politics, not about her personality, disposition, etc.

For the most part, I think 'So what if some think she's a B.' But don't we see she's just someone who knows what she wants. We look up to that in a man. We should in women, too.

One morning, a grandmother woke her young grandson to come with her crabbing at low tide. He carried the basket, and she picked up the crabs and dropped them into it.

At one point, the little boy asked, "Grandma, don't we need to put a lid on this basket? The crabs could crawl out."

She stopped and turned toward him, and gently explained, "Boy, these are she-crabs. If one of them tries to crawl up the side of the basket, the rest will pull her right back down."

That bothers me too. And it is a double-standard. Stong, confident men are respected, women...well they better not be too strong. I do hate to see women do that to each other as well. When I was working on my master's degree, one of our female professors told the women in the class to never cut down our own gender. That always stuck with me. I hear lots of women say, "Women are so catty." or "Women can't work together." Those comments drive me nuts!! I haven't had any trouble working with women, and I have found just as many problem men as women in my workplaces. We women need to stick together!

Hobbymommy, 38, is a discussion leader from Mesa. She is a happy stay-at-home mommy to a 3-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son.

Women should stick together, unfortunately we are told by society at a young age that women are supposed to compete with each other on every plane, so we do. We don't ever stop to ask ourselves why we go along with it or to question society's intentions, and that's a shame.

As much as I hate to say it, we have no one to blame but ourselves for continuing to perpetuate the stereotype that women are catty. I mean think about it, how many times have you been sitting with your girlfriends and have seen another woman in something not so flattering and made a snide comment about it. It doesn't matter whether the person hears you or not, the fact is the cattyness was there. And any woman who says she's never done it is lying, we know this.

It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you are not.

If you think low of yourself, thats what you get out of life.
Women have to respect and love themselves to get what they want and deserve out of life.
Thank goodness all women don't believe like this bumper sticker, but the world is made up of all kinds unfortunately.
It don't surprise me to see this. Actually, nothing surprises me in this world.

One Happy Mom in Arizona.

I totally agree with yummymummy - generally speaking(there may be a few saints out there) women ARE catty(myself included), so that is where the stereotype was born. Look at some of the exchanges on this board - women are in constant competition with one another.Men don't spend nearly as much time or expend a tenth of the amount of effort we do criticizing one another's choices. I mean, when a group of dads get together, do you think they judge one another about whether their wives work or are sahm? I doubt it.....but get a group of women together and bring up that topic and the claws will come out

IF any of you watch Saturday Night Live you may have seen the "editorial" by Tina Fey, an obvious Hillary Supporter. It was funny and pointed out the same points many of you have made. She ended it by saying "b*tch is the new black."

Then this last Saturday, Tracy Morgan, did an editorial, obviously a Barak supporter, where he says "black is the new president, b*tch" I could have done without calling Tina that name, but you know they know each other and it was for comedy. (and TIna had referred to herself as such in her editorial). I think Tina was trying to make those qualities valuable, I don't think the bumper sticker was.

Lovemy4 is a discussion leader for North Central Phoenix, tired mother of 4 great kids and wife to one great husband.

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