“Girls are so mean to each other.”

That’s what one of my guy friends wrote. Plain and simple. When I read that I wanted to contest it but, instead, I found myself agreeing. What is it that makes girls, young women and full grown women compelled to cut each other to pieces? At BU there is a constant undercurrent of tension between women, why? Fear of differences? Fear of inferiority? Utilization as a defense mechanism? Or maybe it’s just plain spite. All I can say for sure is that it is constant; in... Read More