They are also clique and status obsessed, form social heirarchies between "actual friends" and "useful people I tolerate", and otherwise display every hallmark society associates with the "high school mean girl".

The main difference is they *pretend* to be straight-talkers, and people buy it.

Men will create entire subcultures around strategizing the best ways to lie to and manipulate women to sleep with them, or normalize catty backhanded compliments as "negging", and people will still buy into propaganda that they are a blunt, direct lot.

I've been around them, they fucking aren't!

This is honestly the number one disconnect I have in "female-oriented spaces".

Yes, more than my being trans. That's actually been kind of a non-issue, a lot of the time.

My lack of interest in or attraction towards men, however? That gets me iced the fuck out.