Jennifer Horgan: We rarely talk about women's cruelty to women
Women are considered the more empathetic sex but the research doesn't really bear that out, writes Jennifer Horgan
Lacey Chabert, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls: 'Women’s cruelty to other women, how they threaten one another, is rarely discussed. We accept the mean girl stereotype but like to ignore how mean girls sometimes grow up to be even meaner women.'
Jennifer Horgan is a teacher, poet and columnist living in Cork City. Her areas of interest include justice, arts and culture, gender equality and care.
“Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jole-eeeeene…” Let me take a moment to honour CMAT’s rendition of Jolene at Electric Picnic this week. It was wonderful — a fitting tribute by an appropriately powerful artist.
The song is not only brilliant but thematically remarkable. Dolly wrote Jolene in 1973 after a red-headed bank teller showed interest in her beloved husband, Carl Thomas Dean.
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