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more about #frenemies more comments → clevernamehere: I'm a grown-up, I don't have frenemies anymore. That nonsense belongs in high school when you are more or less forced to hang out with people. There a... more » meritxell: an erotic life: As with most things that are purported to be about "women", I have never ONCE met a woman who acted like this. more » sybann: After thinking about this long and hard (that what she said) I realize the reason my best friend IS, is because we're different enough that the compet... more » Mafalda para Presidente: "You're never satisfied. That's just who you are. You felt deprived as a child, and there's nothing anyone can do to make it up to you. You could marr... more » SweetIo: Huh. The only thing I have to disagree with is the part you call "unrealistically bitchy." As somebody who is dealing with infertility, I have people ... more » DorothyBarker: Kind of seems to me there are two tropes about female friendship, at either end of a continuum: either women are really all 'frenemies' and their 'fri... more » marionette: Ugh, please stop with this BS already. When will people realise that you just CAN'T generalise about an entire half of the world's population like thi... more » kaiwhakamarie: I'm totally Wendy - I reached that realization this year and have been working to get out of the 'funk' so to speak, of living in another woman's shad... more » Adora Belle Dearheart: The word friendemy is just stupid. You're not really friends if you secretly hate them! more » marshmallory: I had two best friends in middle and high school. One was my "convenience" best friend with whom I shared all my classes and extracurriculars. She was... more » MissFiFi: I love my friends and am happy for them when good things come their way. Sure I might be bummed if it is not me, but it is fleeting and the joy for an... more » pandorasmittens: Things like this come about and are unnaturally exaggerated because there is a pervasive attitude that women are always supposed to be overly friendly... more » bananaballs: I would rather spend my life without a man than not have my girlfriends (glad I don't have to choose) around me. I don't understand how you can have ... more » kithkin: I think the thing that's troubling about female-female friendships (in my own experience, of course) is that we as women are acutely, painfully aware ... more » angelheadedhipster: This is why every woman must have her Gay Best Friend (TM). more » -
#bookreviews
Are All Female Friends Really Frenemies?
I'm So Happy For You, a new novel by novelist Lucinda Rosenfeld, makes female friendships seem like a supremely unpleasant, never-ending status game.
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