Why Girls Hate Each Other

JennaMarbles, aka Jenna Mourey, is my all-time favorite sociologist. 

"First of all, girls, it's not your fault that you hate girls. You were taught how to do this."

Jenna explains that "everyone was taught to do this," when we grow up we are taught to be competitive in school and on soccer teams, etc.  You are taught to try to be better than the person next to you.  This is a great example of primary socialization teaching children the norms of society. "And when we grow up this doesn't go away."  In college we are judged by our looks, in the professional world you want to move up in rank and get a better job than your peer, celebrities are constantly criticized for their appearance, there is always a winner and a loser.  This is secondary socialization proliferating our idea that competition is natural in society and apparently needed.

When girls hate each other they simply say, "I'm going to take that [thought of judging people and competing with them], and I'm done thinking about it."  Kohlberg's conventional level of moral development is based on using the lens or norms and rules to determine right and wrong, and Jenna basically says that this is what we're doing.  It's not our fault that we're judging people, we're just using what we know as right and doing it without thinking.

Girls that hate each other do so purely out of competition.
She's prettier than me, she has a hot boyfriend, she's more popular than I am, yoga pants look way better on her than me.
And what do we do?  We want that girl to crash and fail.
Why? Competition.  Society taught girls to hate each other, to compete with each other and desire for each other to fail.

Jenna says to combat this natural competition we simply have to accept that we are ourselves and there is just one of us, instead of letting society tell us what to do.  Let everyone else compare you to others, fight the cat apocalypse 2012.