Introduction
We have always wondered why most females are more aggressive towards other females. Here, we are trying to evaluate the real mentality behind why jealousy and aggression tends to form between females. Keeping the biological aspect in mind, we are focusing on the causes, which form the sense of aggression between women/girls and how men/boys are different from them.
Now, if we look inside the genetics, we find that there are two types of sex chromosomes. A female, who is genetically normal, has a XX chromosome and a genetically normal male is an XY. Studies have found that the behavioral affects and abnormalities are caused by sex chromosomes (Lecturer, 2016). The syndrome of male chromosome with an extra Y leads to elevated levels of testosterones, which increases the likeliness of aggressive and violent behavior. Research shows that men with an XYY syndrome committed petty crimes in some cases. However, it is slightly different in the case of females and has an extra X, which shows less visible signs of abnormalities. Females with the XXX chromosome tend to be taller than the normal ones and have learning disorders. Another disorder that results in producing no sex hormones in females is the XO (Turner’s syndrome). Research shows that the XO leads to females having exaggerated femininity in their personalities and behavior. There are psychological and other changes that frequently take place in a female, which often affect the mentality and behavior. Considering the imbalance in estrogen for example, which often results in women/girls having severe mood swings anger issues and, exaggerated depression. Briefly, explaining the biological difference occurring in female and males there are psychological aspects to why women mostly feel the sense of jealousy or tend to act aggressively to other women.
Discussion
Considering the events we usually see around ourselves almost every day also include the behavior of women/girls to other women/girls, they work or study with at universities or workplaces. Women mostly compare a lot when they are working together and they are specific with what they compare, as it could be accessories, which they like wearing/carrying, friends, mutual friendships, or even for that matter someone the like.
Jealousy or aggression drives inside the head when a girl would see another wearing the same brand of sunglasses or carrying the same designer handbag or expensive jewelry that they have not bought or cannot buy (Arnocky, pp. 186-96). However, there is difference to how much something matters to them and the sense of jealousy often takes place when there is conflict between two girls who are best friends with the same girl but dislike each other strongly. They tend to compete and make moves against the other to make the other friend look bad so that it is easier for her to move out of the picture. Another reason to act aggressively to another girl is that from the inside, girls like to bully another, who is slightly weaker in terms of beauty and friends and cannot take a stand for herself. In a working environment, we often hear cases, which involve woman having trouble with another and this happen due to a strict sense of jealousy and competition between each other. Whereas, guys like to take part in activities or would rather sit on a couch and enjoy playing games together than gossiping about how bad the other guy was looking at school or who is dating who in the university currently. It rarely matters to men but with women/girls, it is different. The gossip often leads to conflicts between other girls or often creates a sense of negativity about another and this often leads to opening secrets of others.
Women to women issues go beyond the line of control when it is over someone they like. As we discussed before, that there are scales of jealousy and issues over the same person often gets intense because girls compete and they enjoy winning, which makes them feel secure and powerful. This desire of becoming powerful results in becoming extremely destructive for another. It becomes a challenge for them to obtain the pleasure of winning someone over, as a woman can never stand losing to another girl especially when it involves a person.
Conclusion
Most of the women perceive another woman, whether it is a workplace, a classroom, or someone they like, as a threat to their position/role. For them, it starts with comparison. For instance, when a girl/woman would see another woman she’d firstly observe to figure if this other female is better than her or not. Then comes the stage where she would compete if the other female is actually better than her and then she will start classify that other female as a threat and consider it a rivalry to win the situation by any means necessary.
It is just psychological as not every women is jealous of another because there are often a lot of women/girls that you see out there who have continued their friendships and relations for years long but the sense of empowering themselves sometimes make them cross the lines.
Works Cited
Arnocky, Steven, et al. "Anticipated Partner Infidelity and men’s Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediating Role of Anxiety." Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences 9.3 (2015): 186-96.
