Women - generally more liberal, more tolerant?

[FTMDiaries]

I agree with those here who have said that women are better at hiding their true feelings and motives. They're not more liberal at all - particularly when dealing with other women - they're just much more two-faced about it.

Women feel a need to socialise together so that they can build up their power base, because they tend to rate themselves according to their position within a social group rather than their standing as an individual. So they're more likely to say the right thing to try to get you to like them, but their tune will change the minute your back is turned if they think it'll give them a tactical advantage within their peer group.

I've known plenty of women who will smile to your face and then stab you in the back. Men tend to be much more direct.

YMMV, no offense intended, etc.

[Elspeth]

I just finished watching Raise the Red Lantern -- female socialization at it's most raw and yet concealed under layers of social convention and subterfuge. Then again, the director was a man. But it does depict an extreme version of the social status-keeping that's been discussed.

[Lady_Oracle]

For me women have been more tolerant I feel like. It's always been much easier talking about personal issues with a woman then with a man. When I came out to most of my friends, the women were the most accepting.

[peky]

I just finished watching Raise the Red Lantern -- female socialization at it's most raw and yet concealed under layers of social convention and subterfuge. Then again, the director was a man. But it does depict an extreme version of the social status-keeping that's been discussed.

a bit extra-temporary I would say....100 years ago...Chinese society...

[peky]

I just finished watching Raise the Red Lantern -- female socialization at it's most raw and yet concealed under layers of social convention and subterfuge. Then again, the director was a man. But it does depict an extreme version of the social status-keeping that's been discussed.

Have your read "the red tent?" It give a different view of women interaction...Dinah is never forgotten by the "sisterhood"......of course this want is also extra temporary as it goes back to biblical time (~1600 BCE?)

[Elspeth]

Have your read "the red tent?" It give a different view of women interaction...Dinah is never forgotten by the "sisterhood"......of course this want is also extra temporary as it goes back to biblical time (~1600 BCE?)

I know of it, but regret to say I haven't made time to read it yet. I suspect I should have long ago.  I have an awfully full shelf of those books that I mean to read, and it keeps getting longer. One of the things I hope might be relieved by HRT is my tendency to get distracted so much by things that don't give me joy or greater insight and connection.