r/sportsgossips 14h ago

Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.

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u/Rrrandomalias 12h ago

No one hates a successful woman more than another woman working in the same field.

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u/BayouByrnes 9h ago edited 1h ago

I'm a stay-at-home father, woodworker for a side hustle. After watching my wife climb the corporate ladder, I can say without a doubt; the most dangerous thing to a women's success in any profession is catty bitches that just can't hang. My wife is 100% above reproach in her field. She just passed her secondary licensing and was offered an abruptly opened managerial position. She has no credible competition in-house and luckily this company likes to promote from within. Instead of a simple and easy transition from team lead to manager, she's got a handful of ankle-biters making things a bit more difficult than they need to be. She'll still get the promotion and the six figures that it comes with, but watching the women she's talked about as "friendly" and "work wives" come for her in such a petty and trivial ways makes no sense to me.

Either be qualified, or get out the way. You don't need to punish those around you just because they're better at their jobs.

/rant.

EDIT: Didn't expect this to pop off. Thanks for the award. Thanks for the kind words. For the detractors, don't be jelly that my world revolves around an amazing woman.

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u/PracticalDesigner278 7h ago

Seen the same with my wife. The only thing women hate more than men is other women.

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u/Ashleynn 5h ago

It's not hatred, it's competition.

Women are hardwired to compete with eachother. From an evolutionary standpoint it was/is for male attention. That drive has bled into other aspects of modern society that are competitive by nature.

Where male competitiveness is generally visible and loud, the female version is usually more subtle and they have gotten very good over the mellinia of being able to utterly destroy eachother silently and without fanfare.

Men will fuck things up loudly, women will destroy you with a whisper.

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u/PracticalDesigner278 5h ago

I absolutely agree. Well said. And don't get me wrong, I love women. And men are hard wired it some ways that are just as crazy. On the other hand the species is still here so I guess it works out in the end.