Topic: gender difference

We’ve never been crazy about sororities. Not that we have anything against matching sweatshirts or tailgating, we just know from experience that when you get 50 teenage girls together in one place, there are going to be some tears. Kelly Valen, author of The Twisted Sisterhood, probably wishes that she knew that before she pledged a sorority. She was betrayed and humiliated by her sorority sisters, leaving her with trust issues when it came to female friends. She did a survey of 3,000 women from around the U.S., and she found that she wasn’t alone in her not-so-sisterly feelings of discomfort with women.
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