If women are taught one thing from an early age, it’s to hate other women. It really is the oldest trick in the misogyny rulebook, one that ensures we’re doing the patriarchy’s work for it. The conditioning is so deep, and we default to it so frequently, that often, we don’t even realise we’re doing it.
It’s the way we’re inclined to compete against the female colleague with the same job as ours. Or how we can’t help but hate-slash-obsess over all of our partner’s female exes and compare them to ourselves. In no circumstance does it become more relevant, though, than when your partner leaves you for another woman. Now imagine that woman is a global celebrity.
