I always love illustrative quotes.

"Often women are characterised as being very co-operative, very kind-hearted and not competing directly," Fisher told New Scientist. "But there's been a fair bit of work on how women are indirectly aggressive."

For example, she says: "Rather than saying 'I'm going to beat that woman up because she looked at you', it's 'Oh my goodness, look how fat her ankles are'!"

That's what I say, too, whenever I catch elderly, female Russian immigrants giving Sam the eye.

Posted by nchicha at March 9, 2004 05:26 PM