Little boys grow up encouraged to play on sports teams. Basketball, football, baseball, or what have you. For the team to win, they must work together. Cooperation means success. Brotherhood is forever.
Opposingly, one of the main concepts taught to little girls is the idea that other girls mean competition. Girls compete with each other to be seen, heard, or sometimes acknowledged. Comradery is a big no in the girl world. Why? I have no idea. It’s wrong, but it’s real.
Society teaches young girls that they need to be powerful to be something. But power means someone else doesn’t have any. So, when another girl is considered threatening to their resources, the metaphorical claws appear. This is when it becomes normal for girls to put others down to cover any insecurities. Hence they become powerful by taking away from another.
But this competitive mindset and comparative outlooks are just unhealthy and extremely negative. You are beautiful in your own way. Anyone worth having in your life will see that and understand you. Saying another woman is less than you doesn’t decrease her worth. It only gives YOU a false sense of security. It’s not other women who are the competition. The competition is within yourself and thinking you’re not good enough to stand beside another person who shines.
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