Why do women hurt each other? ?

Question

I'm referring to situations where women become the other women and know it. Married man and yet they carry on an affair with them. It amounts to women sabotaging other women. Why?

Answer 1

One reason could be that there is so much emphasis put on women to be perfect, especially in regards to LOOKING beautiful. So when another is more beautiful, more successful, women get jealous resulting in hostile, "unsisterly" attitudes. Women are constantly competing as society conditions them to it.

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I don't think men are necessarily more successful because they "band together". Competitiveness between men isn't exposed as much as the competitiveness between women. which is a lot more overt. We also need to keep in mind women are being judged a lot more than men are, so it causes them to always be on their guard, trying to be their best, better than the rest. It's like when you're in school and two captains/leaders will be picking people for their teams, it's practically the same thing just in a different context.

I do think it's possible for women to be above that, though as long as there is such a huge emphasis on women to be beauty queens, their insecurities will run rampant, thus this behaviour is going to be there. It's unrealistic to say that women will rise above the attitudes in some sort of universal sisterly unification. The best we can really hope for is a realisation that we needn't be eachothers opponents, however, as much as it shouldn't be, this is all very idealistic thinking.