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Women Can’t Be Friends With Each Other
And other myths the patriarchy promotes among us like failing the Bechdel Test is normal, men and women can’t be friends, and men can’t open up to each other either.
I’ve been very happy with the new friends I’ve made since moving to Florida. I’m glad I’ve kept touch with my friends back in California, too.
I know I’ve been lucky in that I’ve never experienced the kind of betrayal some of my friends have: a close girlfriend cheating with their boyfriend or spouse.
I can see how relationships aren’t easy for single women, especially as we age.
At the same time, if you’re a single woman socializing with other women, what type of person would take the opportunity to go after someone else’s partner? How low can you go, girl?
Even in 2023, there are still large numbers of women who don’t know how to be friends with other women. Instead, they run their lives based on what a man
Tells them to do
Wants them to do
or … if they don’t ‘have’ a man
doing whatever to ‘get’ a man
It’s like living your whole life in a film that fails the Bechdel test.
