@shewolfnm,
Well--it is natural, she, (Hey!!--I hope you are not She Who Must Be Obeyed), you must admit, for females to try to be better than the other females. The history books are full of it.
Some say it is the prime force that created civilisation. I'm not sure I would go quite that far but I see the point. Men are slobs underneath. Lazy, idle good for nothing slobs. Good for nothing I mean unless they are put under tutelage. A gentleman must know how to take tea and biscuits properly at the social occasions they are required to attend as trophies. So many men are delightfully skilful in these sorts of things today that the pubs are empty all week long. Just a few recidivists clustered around the bar mulling over the general state of affairs. Which I don't think, strictly speaking, is the right and proper thing to do because it might not take too long to realise that TV has been taken over by the female interest, the Long World March of the Monstrous Regiment of Women, so that it dictates that it is normal, and to be expected, indeed approved, to try to be better than the common run. And with men watching a lot of TV themselves, even though it is their deadliest enemy, they have come to see that the invidious distinction is natural to them too. Which, of course, it isn't because the yin and the yang are opposites and hence if it is natural for females to try to be better than each other it is obviously not natural for men.
And the men have now started talking like women but what they have to say doesn't interest women, how could it, like what women have to say does.
So all in all, you have there made a grand compliment to men of the old type and I am happy to thank you on our behalf.
SKY News has three female war correspondents set down in Libya, for CV purposes, having been wheedled out of the producer in the Stanwykian manner, amidst a very large number of excited men reporting in by video link to a female presenter who is also discussing what they are hearing and seeing with two female studio guests. The latter three are all dolled up and there's a hint of thigh flashing and the other three have been tumbled in a barrel to make the job look macho. They are called Anna, Lisa, and Emma. And Lisa has a cleavage which she is not averse to displaying--well-- it is hot in Libya, Anna has a rather large bottom which I don't think it was her intention to have shown and Emma is a flattie and so wears flak jackets.
Isn't it odd that of all the incorrect habits of men it is the use of obscenity which is the least disparaged now? That's because it doesn't cost any money like smoking, drinking and gambling does so it doesn't hinder money being spent on looking better, not being better, than one's rivals and women can easily use obscenity themselves anyway and thus mitigate its social effects.