That Was No Accident

The sheer ruthlessness of female competition is beyond male comprehension

What’s fascinating about female competition is not only how brutal it is, but the way in which many of the competitors don’t even realize that they’re in a competition, much less that they’re being played.

In a scenario that tends to support the science, a Sigma Game subscriber shares her personal experience with another girl who successfully reduced her attractiveness by “accidentally” chopping her hair off.

I had long hair in junior high and my cousin said a piece in the back was longer and needed a trim and that she could just snip it off. So I let her and she ended up cutting two big chunks off, and to make it even, led to it all being shoulder-length. It was actually devastating.

So I never fell for the "just get the edgy, no-hassle, short-hair cut". I don’t think it was a jealousy thing, but could never figure out why she did that. Ironically, or maybe as penance, she has cut her hair in this short, spiky, grandma-ish pouf since about 30, and I cannot even fake a compliment. Even my son asked why she does that, like it was self-mutilation.

That was no accident. It was less a jealousy thing, than it was a competitive thing. Notice how the cousin invents a non-existent problem, offers a solution, then somehow makes it even worse, therefore requiring a second solution that results in the butchering of the female rival’s hair.

Oops! I’m so terribly sorry about the accident that’s about to happen!

As for the cousin’s decision to shear her own locks, it’s not penance. As even a child can tell, it’s a form of self-mutilation based on the same negative impulse that drives people to cover themselves with ink, pile on the pounds, or surgically modify themselves in obviously unattractive ways. Some women simply can’t bear the reality of discovering they are relatively uncompetitive in the sexual market, so they choose to make statements that imply they don’t care and are not even trying to compete, even if their subsequent actions to drag others down toward their level tend to demonstrate otherwise.

There is no way this was an accident either. Most women in 1995 couldn’t have told you who Dudley Moore was, much less been familiar with his 70’s-era hairstyle.

In general, a woman is as ill-advised to take stylistic advice from another woman as an Alpha executive is to take business advice from a Gamma working in the IT department. Because the advice received is reliably going to be a) self-serving in some way, b) based on false assumptions, and, c) injurious to the individual foolish enough to take it.