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Edited on Fri May-30-08 12:05 PM by PoliticalAmazon
but sure don't get the relevance of the quote.
This is just my experience with women (me being a woman, as well)...even if a man is involved, it's not over the man so much as it is a power struggle. The man is just the patsy.
Women, especially from my generation and before, have real issues with power. They don't go overtly for it, but use more subtle ways to exert their power.
I think some of the most vicious power struggles in a business environment that I've witnessed have been between women. A lot of it is something that probably only women would know what was going on, but some women in power struggles can take it to the personal-destruction level very early in the process.
Primates that exist in groups have power struggles. The more obvious one is for the alpha male position; that's because males, in general, just make a production out of everything they do. They are much more overt and physically violent than are women, in general.
But there are also struggles over the alpha female position, and the tactics are more subtle. Passive-aggressive snubs in grooming situations, denial of food or resources, sometime little slights of another female's offspring.
Anyway, I think men may like to think we fight over them, and it may look that way, but it really isn't true. And, if there is the odd occasion that it realy is over a man, it certainly would not be over his dick. For most women, dicks are available for free, anytime they want, and no man has a magical dick: if it works, the man is considerate and experienced, and doesn't pass on diseases, it is generally a win-win situation. The catfight might be about having access the the disputed male's resources, or having their own social position raised by being associated with him, or simply a territorial thing: "He's mine, you can't have him" type of thing.
Just my observations on catfights, men, and the unimportance of men's dicks in female power struggles.
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