Solidarity among women isn’t created this way. Because women are lower on society’s totem pole, and have less power to lose, their conversational bonding has everything to do with admitting to their rebellion against the gender status quo, not doing everything they can to live up to it. For that reason, when women build in-group connections through conversation, their statements have to be 100 percent truthful. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a secret worth sharing, and thus, it wouldn’t accomplish its goal.
