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    Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men

    Are Girls Ashamed To Kick Ass?

    Are Your Friends Your Companions Or Your Competition?

    Women's Voices Are "Sexiest" When They're "In Heat"

    Even Suburban Kids Go Dutch
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    Image of Scoithniamh Scoithniamh
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    Wait, what? I thought women were supposed to be uber-competitive bitches. That's why we all hate Megan Fox.

    Maybe we only compete on who's the best collaborator or nurturer. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    These people haven't seen me at the air hockey table. I PWN N00BS BISHES. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    I used to be competitive till I found out I just can't win. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @redqueenmeg: Heh. Maybe you can win, but you just haven't found your game yet. :-) #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: If that's the case I'm leaving it a bit late! #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @redqueenmeg: It, whatever "it" is, is never too late. If I thought "it" were ever too late I probably wouldn't have a life at all.

    (Although it could be an effective counterargument that that's what a quintessential late bloomer probably would say.)

    Though with a username like redqueenmeg - you're not a Hearts player? Spades player? Cosmetics royalty? :-)
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    11/13/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Named after the Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass. I have to run as fast as I can just to stay in the same spot. ;) #competitiveness
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    Image of OneTwoPunch OneTwoPunch
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    Yeah, agree. Who wants everyone to be some hyper-competitive douche-bag? I work and live with enough of those types, esp. in Manhattan, where even real estate is some insane blood sport. It's like, put the Starbucks down, and cool the fuck off. Now!

    Some people are always so amped up all the time, on the train, on line in the grocery store, walking down the street, always comparing themselves, always measuring themselves up, and against who, for what? Some weird American Dream ideal of "keeping up with the Joneses?"

    It should be about ones' personal best and acheiving ones' goals. To me, the biggest losers in life are people who are constantly looking over their shoulders to see what the person next to them is doing. Fuck 'em—just go for it and do it. For you!
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    Image of lastsinglestanding lastsinglestanding
    11/13/09

    @OneTwoPunch: Cosigned! I just don't get it. I was talking to one of the new hires at work and within 15 minutes, she had reiterated to me at least 5 times that she was "really competitive." Um, why? For what? I am a driven person. I accomplish what I set out to do. But it rarely occurs to me to see if that's what other people are doing as well.

    Different strokes, I guess. #competitiveness
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    Image of lermanzo lermanzo
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    i'm not necessarily competitive. but tell me i can't do something. or that i have to.

    then this bitch will SHOW YOU HOW TO WIN. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @lermanzo: Mom? Is that you? #competitiveness
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    Image of I_can_still_pitch I_can_still_pitch
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    Women have always been just as competitive. And just as likely to triumph. The difference has always been that if a man is hyper-competitive and aggressive he is "hard-nosed" or "plays for keeps" or is some kind of a "warrior." When a woman does the same thing she is a "bitch" or an "emasculator". It's just sad. #competitiveness
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    I know there's nothing I enjoy more than a rousing game of Who's Fatter. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @SarahMC: Very funny!

    I am going to need you to come to my office and help me play a rousing game of "cleaning the Coke spray off my monitors and keyboard." #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @SarahMC: Heh. We're setting up rounds right now for the Round Robin Open Holiday Tournament. #competitiveness
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    Image of Scoithniamh Scoithniamh
    11/13/09

    @SarahMC: Eh, I always preferred Who's Prettier: Who Can Get the Most Men. Of course, the loser dies of shame, which makes the tournaments extra fierce. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    Anyone who thinks women are less competitive than men has OBVIOUSLY never played Risk with me.
    It gets ugly.
    Really, really ugly. #competitiveness
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    Image of Hell on Heels Hell on Heels
    11/13/09

    @PortraitHat: My father likes to tell people that if you look up the phrase "miniature golf" in the dictionary, you will find an illustration of me and the admonishment "DO NOT play with this girl." #competitiveness
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    Image of rixatrix rixatrix
    11/13/09

    @PortraitHat: You and me, we need to play something together. Because at the end of the day, trash-talk is just good, clean fun, right? #competitiveness
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    Image of sympathyforthebasementcat sympathyforthebasementcat
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    I'm definitely as competitive as any guy. In fact, I'm more competitive. I'm the most competitive person ever, and no one can take that title from me. #competitiveness
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    11/13/09

    @sympathyforthebasementcat: I WILL DEFEAT YOU. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @Kivrin: I WILL DEFEAT YOU HARDER! BRING IT! #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @Kivrin: @sympathyforthebasementcat:
    Now, now, girls. Everyone can win! It's the feminine law! Otherwise YOU WILL BE EMASCULATING THE BOYS AND WILL BE FOREVER UNWOMANLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU #competitiveness
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    11/14/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Congratulations! You have won the Best Embodiment of Feminine Values competetion!

    (You just can't lose! Mwhahaha) #competitiveness
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    11/14/09

    @inkyhand: "(You just can't lose! Mwhahaha)"

    Ahaha. I c whut u did thar.
    *falls for it* #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    I plan to be like this when I've kids.
    [www.youtube.com] #competitiveness
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    Image of jenilane jenilane
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    My approach to competition has always been: Be Awesome, Laugh as Everyone Else Tries to Beat You and Fails Miserably. It's worked out pretty damn well for me. Just because I don't seem to be competing with you doesn't mean I'm not winning. :) #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @jenilane: That's basically how I am, too. And the games where I don't think I can win? I don't play them.
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    Penelope wants to tell you that she invented competition so I guess there wouldn't be any if not for her. And then after she created it she had a competition with it and she won so she's probably more competitive than you. #competitiveness
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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    Anyone who believes that girls aren't competitive should have met the five-year-old Flackette. I have always had a fiercely, ferociously competitive streak for the things that I care about. This tendency was enhanced by some intensely competitive school years, and has blossomed into an all-out Napoleon complex in adulthood. Joining a sorority full of women who were intensely competitive about grades and scholarships probably did nothing to mute it either. This may have to do with the idea that I was never told that girls shouldn't be competitive. My parents were always encouraging me to kick butt in all my activities, but particularly school.

    When, as an adult, I first heard someone say that girls aren't very competitive, I just looked at them like "What in the fuck?".

    Honestly, I spend most of my time in therapy trying to understand how to function in a world that doesn't view everything as a competition. At 30 years old, sometimes it's still hard for me to understand that life isn't a contest to be won via racking up points. #competitiveness
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    Image of Lola del Rio Lola del Rio
    11/13/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: I say listen to your 5-year old self... she sounds like a bad-ass. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @Lola del Rio: She was, but unfortunately someone later told her that boys don't like competitive girls, and I'm still trying to sort out the damage. #competitiveness
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    Image of Lola del Rio Lola del Rio
    11/13/09

    @Flackette Goes Retro: BOOOOOOO!!!!

    On them & any one else that screws up bad-ass 5 year olds!

    We should have a Let's Be 5 Again party. We would wear mismatched socks & chucks with our princess dresses and only invite boys so that we could wrestle them to the ground & laugh at their weaknesses.

    Dude... I'm totally doing that tonight! #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    In reply to Anything You Can Do: Women Can Be Just As Competitive As Men
    My favorite moment with my sister:

    Me: My cholesterol is 115.

    Her: Silence:

    Me: Isn't that GRRRREAT?

    Her: (green eyes narrowed) I WILL beat you. #competitiveness
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    11/13/09

    @NewsBunny: Yeah, so your cholesterol is all low and everything. I'll whip your butt on thyroid levels.
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    11/13/09

    @ihateyourescalade: You may beat me on thyroid, bitch, but my blood pressure is to fucking DIE FOR. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @NewsBunny: Mine is so low I *should* be dead, BUT I'M NOT SO THAT ALONE SHOULD SCARE YOU

    Heh. #competitiveness
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    11/13/09

    @NewsBunny: Oh yeah? How's your iron level, Miss Bunnythang? #competitiveness
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    01/24/09

    In reply to Are Girls Ashamed To Kick Ass?
    One thing I think is interesting about the comments is that a lot of former h.s. athletes are saying their coaches encouraged them to win, and win hard. I am pretty sure that almost all of us had coaches who wanted us to win. (I still remember the way our volleyball coach screamed at us after we basically gave the last three points of the game to the other team.) I also hated to lose. I had times when I was on the team that lost badly and it was painful and bruising to the ego.


    Like I said, I don't think any coach out there hates winning and loves to lose. If they did they wouldn't be in sports.


    But the other thing we were taught was that sports was about a hell of a lot more than winning and physicality. It was also about teamwork, self-confidence, pride and respect, not only for yourself and your teammates but also for the other team. I have to say, I am really glad I never played for a coach that would have encouraged running the score up like this, because for me, winning was only icing on the cake of sports. The real prize was the respect I had for myself and others. Playing a game like the one mentioned in the OP is about as far from having respect for others as it gets.

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