If you’re a woman, you’ve probably noticed that there’s been a whole host of research published lately on the subject of “relational aggression among girls.” Translation: Why girls are so horrible to each other. Books such as “Queen Bees & Wannabes” and “Odd Girl Out” purport to look inside the sometimes vicious world of young girls and give us nonteenage girls some insight into what makes them tick. Now comes “Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman,” which takes the vicious, back-stabbing world of teenage girls and applies it to the world of women.
My complaint with this body of research isn’t that it’s invalid (from what I can tell, it seems to be based on some solid research – probably far more than it deserves). My complaint is that, despite the authors’ best intentions, their work ends up doing little more than solidifying the negative stereotypes that have dogged women for centuries.
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