{"id":54282,"date":"2013-03-26T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-26T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T09:46:00","slug":"why-trash-talking-making-us-weaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digiblocks.ca\/29secrets\/relationships\/why-trash-talking-making-us-weaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trash Talking is Making Us Weaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\">\n<div>\n<p>We need to stop trash-talking each other. Us\u009d being women,\u009d and we\u009d being women,\u009d as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digiblocks.ca\/29secrets\/relationships\/relationships-how-much-do-labels-matter\" target=\"_blank\">We label each other<\/a> based on sex lives, career moves, and clothes worn. We&#8217;ll talk trash about somebody&#8217;s girlfriend because we want to date the attached. We&#8217;ll judge a woman who&#8217;s moved up at work because we haven&#8217;t. We try to contain women to our own set of values, but only force ourselves into more of a mold as a result.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I get it \u201c it&#8217;s easy. It&#8217;s easy to ignore that a committed\u009d guy is either emotionally or physically cheating on someone he&#8217;s supposed to respect. It&#8217;s easy to call a woman names if she lives her life the way you wouldn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s easy to pick apart someone&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/digiblocks.ca\/29secrets\/?p=50392\" target=\"_blank\">physical flaws<\/a> if you&#8217;re jealous of where they are professionally. For a few seconds, it even helps. You get a laugh, you feel validated, and then you slowly acknowledge the feeling that you&#8217;ve just contributed to the problem. Which you (and I, and all of us) have.<\/p>\n<p>Women have been labeled since women have existed. We know that. We&#8217;ve been forced to act, look, and behave certain ways, and those who&#8217;ve dared to challenge convention have been mocked, judged, and locked away (among much worse). And yet we \u201c we, who understand that painful history &#8212; paint ourselves back into it, trash talking for no reason other than to better ourselves. Which never works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obviously okay to dislike someone. No one is universally liked (unless you are Amy Poehler), and it&#8217;s not against a code or the conventions of feminism to cut somebody out of your life if you don&#8217;t want her in it. But to name call and to insult for the purpose of making yourself feel better \u201c we&#8217;re better than that. It doesn&#8217;t improve anything, it makes you feel bad, and it would probably hurt whoever it&#8217;s about if she heard it.<\/p>\n<p>Because the thing is, you don&#8217;t want her to hear it. If you did, you would probably approach her and say, I don&#8217;t like you and this is why.\u009d But instead, you whisper or gossip, and then act friendly or indifferent. Meaning any trash talking you do is a colossal waste of time. (Minus the occasional vent session you may have with a close friend, who will likely remind you that you&#8217;re being irrational and that you&#8217;re talking about a human being. And to those friends, I say thank you, you have kept me both sane and ultimately employed.) Trash talking divides, perpetuates cliques, and, depending on in what capacity, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/digiblocks.ca\/29secrets\/relationships\/dealing-grown-mean-girls\" target=\"_blank\">bullying<\/a> tactic. And instead of focusing on what&#8217;s important like your own goals and your own life, you focus on the worst parts of someone who represents something else. You&#8217;re Rachel to Julie in <em>Friends<\/em> season two \u201c and let&#8217;s be honest: Julie was great, and totally lost out because Ross acted like an indecisive child.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s quit it. We&#8217;re smart, and we&#8217;re aware, so why not flip the situation. If you don&#8217;t like someone, cut her out or keep things strictly professional if you have to work together. But in the meantime, let&#8217;s champion our individual choices, our ability to have them, and the fact that refusing to spew negativity will ultimately make us better people. Ask yourself why\u009d the next time you rush to label someone. Ask yourself why she&#8217;s not just someone you&#8217;ve removed from your life if she makes you so upset. Ask yourself what the reaction is really about. We&#8217;re all too busy to focus on the worst parts of someone who doesn&#8217;t make us happy, so let&#8217;s band together instead to change things so we are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_sympatico_footer\">\n<div>Sympatico Footer<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Related Content:<br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/digiblocks.ca\/29secrets\/relationships\/how-deal-catty-coworker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to Deal with a Catty Coworker<br \/><\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/digiblocks.ca\/29secrets\/relationships\/how-dump-toxic-friend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to Dump a Toxic Friend<\/a><br \/>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/digiblocks.ca\/29secrets\/?p=50871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Friend or Frenemy?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to stop the girl-on-girl hate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67426,"featured_media":72812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64613],"tags":[64841,64753,72576,64677,76502,76503,65059,67770],"class_list":["post-54282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","tag-feminism","tag-friendships","tag-gossiping","tag-relationships","tag-social-problems","tag-trash-talking","tag-women","tag-work"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Trash Talking is Making Us Weaker - 29Secrets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why it&#039;s important to stop the girl on girl hate. 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