Whose interests are served by our relentless compulsion to belittle other women? By and large, a small number of privileged, individual women benefit from this state of affairs. They reap the rewards of “winning” at femininity. They remain at the top of the feminine social pecking order. Still, even the stature of these fortunate few is quite limited when compared with the stature of the group that truly benefits from our situation—men in power.
