The only area in which I worked with all women is the Special Education department. There was your average amount of shit talking typical of any group, but considering that the women that I worked with were educated (Bachelor's degrees) and open minded (you kind of have to be in special ed), I did not have that problem and I (possibly wrongfully) attribute it to those characteristics. Shit-talking usually indicates a level of unhappiness with one's life and those women were doing something they truly believed in, so to be a blatant shit-talker in that class would have rubbed them the wrong way.
However, I know exactly what you are talking about. The way many groups of women socialize requires one to run at a certain frequency that, for people like me who are about as male brained as a female can get before it gets weird or blatantly "butchy", can be very tiring. They are very social and they analyze others very highly and I would imagine that if you get enough women of a certain personality type together (i.e. the kind of personality type necessary for someone to work in a fucking horrible job like retail for so long), shit gets real.
Usually, I work with just males, but the group is always interesting when there is a mix of different gender and personality types. I have worked in places with all males in which we all had great chemistry and some places where it just like... sucked. But I digress. I am not exactly misogynistic but getting a bunch of women together (especially ones that are uneducated, single Moms that hate men because they fucked the cholo and surprise, he didn't stick around and women that have given up on their dreams and resigned to a life as a cashier) is basically like asking for hell.
Is it normal to hate working with all one sex?
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The only area in which I worked with all women is the Special Education department. There was your average amount of shit talking typical of any group, but considering that the women that I worked with were educated (Bachelor's degrees) and open minded (you kind of have to be in special ed), I did not have that problem and I (possibly wrongfully) attribute it to those characteristics. Shit-talking usually indicates a level of unhappiness with one's life and those women were doing something they truly believed in, so to be a blatant shit-talker in that class would have rubbed them the wrong way.
However, I know exactly what you are talking about. The way many groups of women socialize requires one to run at a certain frequency that, for people like me who are about as male brained as a female can get before it gets weird or blatantly "butchy", can be very tiring. They are very social and they analyze others very highly and I would imagine that if you get enough women of a certain personality type together (i.e. the kind of personality type necessary for someone to work in a fucking horrible job like retail for so long), shit gets real.
Usually, I work with just males, but the group is always interesting when there is a mix of different gender and personality types. I have worked in places with all males in which we all had great chemistry and some places where it just like... sucked. But I digress. I am not exactly misogynistic but getting a bunch of women together (especially ones that are uneducated, single Moms that hate men because they fucked the cholo and surprise, he didn't stick around and women that have given up on their dreams and resigned to a life as a cashier) is basically like asking for hell.