When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues.
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
A lot of women will be sort of 'competitive like a guy' in the workplace, but then when they go home, they realize that's not fully authentic for them. They would like to have a more expansive or more authentic relationship in the workplace around competition.
I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
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