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So basically, women tend to be meaner to other women than the other combinations (men to men, men to women, and women to men)?
by joncrane 9y ago
So basically, women tend to be meaner to other women than the other combinations (men to men, men to women, and women to men)?
- rosser 9y agoBroadly, maybe? [0] It's hard, if not meaningless, to attempt to extrapolate hard conclusions from general trends. Individual variance within a population almost always exceeds that population's statistically visible tendencies. As many of the other top-level threads on this article indicate, there's plenty of anecdata to that effect, though. I wonder how much this research will be picked up and spun into "See? Women are ___" by people who are reading only far enough to have their biases confirmed. [0] Ugh. Not intentional, sorry. EDIT: footnote
- oh_sigh 9y agoMore precisely: Women tend to self-report that women are ruder to them than self-reported rudeness of men.
- titanix2 9y agoPersonnal anecdote here. I majored and graduated from two bachelors with very distinct demographic. The first one (CS) was 90%+ men, the other (language studies) was about 75%+ women. In the CS degree, relationship between people ranged from friendly to don’t care. Most people weren’t concerned about people that weren’t their friends in the class. All in all it was a neutral/good ambiance. In the language promotion the ambiance was awful. The class was split in various groups of 2-3 people half openly hating each other (tons of gossips going one). When a group of 4 existed, it was actually 2 groups of 2 that also disliked and bath-mouthed at any occasion. I’m sill reading the Facebook degree group sometime, and besides one year, this distrust ambiance still exists as of nowadays. So the conclusion of the paper doesn’t seem farfetched for me; it actually confirm what I experimented myself.