As a woman, I’ve learned that the moment I interact with another woman in the office environment and disagree with what they suggest, I become their enemy. It’s wild. I handle criticism well and I’m comfortable with conflict. I know that it’s work and not personal but I feel like 1/4 of the women I work with take disagreement as a personal vendetta, and they will carry that with them for their whole career.
People say women are overly emotional, which some absolutely are, personally if you disagree with me I’ll take your opinion and roll with it. Disagreeing shouldn’t always lead to conflict, but with women I feel like it does. Men are never argumentative toward me.
Do men deal with this with other men? Is it me personally? It’s exhausting.