Are you psycho? I'm totally not psycho. Oh, good, I'm not psycho either! Whew!

I love girl friends, couldn't get along without them. I have guy friends too but believe one needs both. Also, I'm suspicious of girls who "just don't get along" with other girls. Usually either they either a) don't get along with a certain TYPE of girl and haven't made an effort to find ones they CAN get along with, or b) can't stand the competition for attention. Knew a girl like this in college who was the darling of a group of guy friends; she'd savage any other girl who got too chummy with them.

Cue flame war.

If my girlfriends and I were on the Real World it would go something like this:

'oh god, I'm such a psycho...'
'yeah but I am too, it's okay'
'Neither of you are anywhere near as psycho as me, at least you don't kiss Men with Translucent Heads and Mashed Yams for Brains!'
'ha ha what about that time we sat on Raccoon Guy's doorstep in the pouring rain and you vomited in the rosegarden and I couldn't stop being in hysterics about that Guy with the Large Head and his Sauce-Covered Friend'
'God that was funny, we are such psychos!'
'and remember when we were on that bushwalk and those sexy french boys came around the corner towards us and we got such a fright and you told them that we thought they were water buffalo'
'ha ha, they must have thought I was such a psycho'
'you are a psycho, Psycho'
'okay, you psycho'
'ha ha, you're the psycho'
'God, I know it.. what am I going to do about being such a psycho?'
'you're nowhere near as psycho as me'
'yes, she is, she's even more psycho than you!'
'well at least I don't use the dictionary game to make subtle digs at the clergy, you psycho'
'ha ha'

etc

I think the reason that women collect less music is social. Men are judged on their possessions, women are judged on their personal decorativeness.

I can't bear it when women don't like other women. I don't know whether their dislike stems from internalised misogyny or misplaced competitiveness (chasing after a dubious prize) and I don't really care any more either. It's just ridiculous to me. I dearly love both my sisters and my women friends.

I hate the defiant way some women will say they don't like other women, and then look around at the men who are present, as though they are expecting a medal.

I can't bear it when men don't like other men...

(Why must women always justify their love/hate?)

men don't get judged on their mental well-being the way women do.

If I was a man, and men had historically been treated like second-rate citizens,and another man claimed he didn't like men (which would include me, since it would be a universal dismissal of men), I think I would find that unbearable also. I would find it painful and demeaning and stupid.

I wasn't aware women did 'always' have to 'justify' who they love or hate- I have suffered from no such compulsion- and I can't see any justification for disliking an entire gender. Dislikes based upon individual cases are different, because then it is the person who is disliked and not the category.

i am always suspicious of straight women. in my experience, a straight woman who wants to be friends with me always has a motive. This is because I think I'm it.