Do Women Compete?

January, 1987

Back in prehistoric times, before feminism, women allegedly did things like pull each other's hair and scratch each other's eyes out over men. They initiated vicious whispering campaigns against each other in offices; they told a friend "Gorgeous hairdo, Gladys!" when Gladys was looking particularly like a gas-station attendant; they stole recipes and husbands and were, just for the hell of it, generally hateful and vicious to those of their own sex.In this enlightened age of feminism,...