Letters to the Editor
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You're not the only one!
Reading Ms. M's letter was like reading my own thoughts! I have long struggled with the fact that I do not particularly like women...or more to the point, I do not particularly like most of the women I have met. I never had a gaggle of girlfriends, and have always prefered the company of men. I had a very feminist mother and was also abandoned by my father at age 14, which very well could be one of the reasons that I seek male company. But I've come to accept the fact that I will never be the sex in the city kinda girl who goes to breakfast every weekend with her gal pals. I can't stand the insipid conversation, shallow observations, and generally trivial discourse about boyfriends, marriage and babies. I do have a very small set of girlfriends but the relationships I've built with them have been cultivated over a long period of time and is based on a mutual, rational outlook on the world not on celebrity gossip. Don't get me wrong, I like to shop too, but it doesn't govern my life!
But deep down I think women have great potential, it's a shame so many of them choose, or are taught to play up to stereotypes and cliches.