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#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
Modern Wisdom
The Halo Effect or Pretty Privilege Is a Double Edged Sword
Gossip is a way to harm your same sex rivals reputations without incurring social penalties. Women who are attractive but particularly sexually provocative get targeted the most and then other women who are kind of competitive or really status driving and agentic they also get targeted by other women's aggression. Most women want to have friends that are kind of around about their attractiveness level at least you would be able to have a coalition of friends like that whereas if you're 99 out of 100 who are you going to be friends with?
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