Both the movies and the TV show are dramatic illustrations of how women’s competition over relationships brings women closer together even as it keeps them permanently apart. Any athlete will tell you that you are much closer to your competitors than to anyone else—they are the ones against whom you measure yourself, and only they can truly understand you. Yet since we women are not allowed to compete openly and are rarely praised for our competitive natures—not even in an open contest like The Bachelor—we have difficulty dropping the rivalry when it no longer serves us.
Rage becomes her / odd girl out
