[ Gender & Women's Studies ] Open Question : Why do certain women want to be seen as 'tough'?

It is so unbecoming. Jane Austen would never have written a novel about a 'tough bitch' who was relationally aggressive. I am sure in her time, in her class, demonstrably more refined than our own age, the women that were little nasty bitches were not lionized and favoured. It just wasn't like that. People were more civil and high. Everyone is so low and trashy these days and are so accepting of lowness and trashiness. By trashiness I mean everyone kowtowing to the aggressive person in a group of people..