My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

That's a rather pesssimistic view, isn't it? I mean, I know that human beings are all flawed, but by saying that ALL women have an alternate agenda, don't you think you're insulting your sisterhood?

No. It's being truthful without shoving sunshine up anyone's asses.

Originally Posted by pbear19

More than that, she is insulting herself. She is saying that she herself is evil, unless somehow she is exempt from being a woman.

Yes, all people are inherently selfish, to a degree. Not just women. That is a trait of being human. But to have some measure of selfishness does not make one evil, and to say that women as a whole are evil is a level of cynicism that even I, a rather cynical person, have not embraced.

I'm not insulting myself, or my sisterhood. I've been evil at times, I admit. And men are the same way... they just aren't catty like women. Like someone said, men will have fights or whatever, but in the end they'll all laugh and have a beer. Girls get vicious.

[pbear19]

I'm sorry PM_Mama, but I personally will never be convinced that the idea that some women have the capacity to be vicious means that all women are evil. That is a HUGE leap.

The capacity to be mean in certain circumstances (which is a human trait) does not equate to evilness.

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

No. It's being truthful without shoving sunshine up anyone's asses.

I think there's a level of truthfulness that can be obtained without asserting that all women are evil, particularly since there is no way possible physically that you have met all the women in the world. Was Eleanor Roosevelt evil? Was Mother Theresa evil? Were all the other women, alive, and dead, that suffered for their country, cause, or creed, evil? I beg to differ. That's not "shoving sunshine up anyones asses," as you so flagrantly put it, that is looking at the world with an optimistic view, as opposed to a hopeless view.