Why We Should Embrace 'The Other Woman'
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Why We Should Embrace 'The Other Woman'

An overdose of reality

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Why We Should Embrace 'The Other Woman'
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What the females in this world need is an overdose of reality. We need to learn from The Other Woman. No… I’m not talking about the girl chasing after your boyfriend or husband, but rather the movie, The Other Woman.

One thing I’ve noticed about the female species is that we are naturally, biologically, and stereotypically pitted against each other. It’s natural for guys to fight and make up within the next five minutes.

But girls?

A girl can hold a grudge against another girl for a whole century based on the mere fact that she was spotted hugging Girl A's ex boyfriend.

Why is that?

Girls, with only very few exceptions, feel like they are in a perpetual competition with the rest of the female race. We can spend hours gossiping about other girls that we don’t like.

For this reason, I feel more comfortable being friends with guys than girls.

Girls attract drama like flies on meat. In case you haven’t watched the movie, it is about a woman who found out her hubby was cheating on her with a lot of other well-dispersed women. As a result, she befriended them.

They ended up sabotaging the man's plans to steal his wife's lucrative business ideas, and they all became lifelong friends.

So what lessons can we grab from The Other Woman?

  • In the movie, there is no such thing as holding grudges. Kate, the woman whose husband was cheating on her with about ten thousand other women, didn’t threaten to kill, maim, or decapitate the other women. She recognized that they were all victims of the same tragedy and instead joined forces with them. She saw them as compatriots, not enemies. They worked together for the greater good and prevailed in the end.
  • In the movie, women are shown building each other up selflessly and sincerely. Sure, they went through rough times and got their hearts shattered to pieces by the same guy, but they didn’t let that fact overshadow the respect they had for each other. In the end, they had fun, travelled to different places, sabotaged the bastard that broke their hearts, and forged long-lasting friendships with each other. They understood who was at fault--the guy, and who were the victims--them. They didn’t allow their anger at the man at fault to spill over into their sisterhood.
  • In the movie, the women learnt to push their differences aside and lie for each other, not to each other. Although this was hard for them to do, they had to trust each other enough to know that they were in it for each other’s best interests. This trust bred opportunities for better things. In the end, Cameron Diaz's character, Carly, found love in the brother of one of the women. If the women had fought and insulted one another ruthlessly as women usually do, that relationship would not have happened.

So you see: we as women need to appreciate one another and stop looking at each other as nemeses. It isn’t healthy, and it makes the male population happy.

Why?

Because they know if they ever screw up and get caught cheating or lying, we won’t take it out on them, but rather, the girl(s) in question.

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