I know all that. I’m not talking about jerky cool girls who are trying to distance themselves from other women in order to appeal to men. I was never one of those and I was picked on anyway, just for being “weird” and not female-friending properly per the standards of the group, in esoteric ways I was never really…

I think simply being an introvert/misfit is completely different from specifically not liking other women, which is a very special type of female misogyny that I too find very irksome.

I’m really glad for you that you have not had that experience — honestly! That is not sarcasm. The experience sucks. And I will say that the problem I describe lessened dramatically past my twenties (college was the absolute worst time of my life in terms of ostracization, and I didn’t even befriend sorority types…

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This phenomenon is tyranny for the minority of women who happen to be loners. There’s never a shortage of others ready to mark you as one of those “women who don’t like other women” simply because you hate brunch or weddings or kitchen labia-comparisons or silly shit like “Galentine’s Day.” It doesn’t matter if you…