re: #45 Jimmah

Ice told me she had been expecting it - I had no idea it was coming.

The only thing i want to say about that is, because I’m a woman and I’ve experienced it before, I knew it was coming. As you know, and others here know.

I hoped it wouldn’t happen and I didn’t want to believe it would—but I wasn’t surprised at all when it did. And I knew that her latent hostility would explode, if it would at all, the second you and I were in the same place.

The idea that someone would be enraged by the knowledge of two other people she hadn’t even met finding happiness with each other was simply alien to me. Sadly, no more. I now know that for some women, there is nothing more abhorrent than knowing that another woman is happy when they aren’t.

Ditto for Irish Rose.

The difference is that I don’t know Irish Rose at all and I was completely shocked to discover the depth of her animosity towards me. I had no idea she was emailing CJ demanding that he ban me (and others), and I was fairly stunned by her posts about me after her banning.

And since I don’t know her, I feel quite ok with speculating.

Irish Rose was claiming for at least a year to be engaged to some guy— but then announced that they were ‘officially engaged’ the day after you and I posted here about our wedding.

I have some guesses, but they’re only guesses.

Let me say this: you will never, ever, ever, find more hostility between women than these two situations: the rage of a woman who desperately wants to be married and whom no one wants to marry— directed at any woman who is getting married.

unless it’s this:
The total rage of a woman who wants to be pregnant and can’t conceive, directed at a woman who is pregnant.

I mention that last one not because it applies here, but because these two situations destroy female friendships all the time, let alone relationships between women who don’t know each other.

So, yeah. Sexual jealousy.