Is it bad that sometimes I just wish everybody would shut the eff up?

Please excuse my slangy French, but honestly, I can’t take all the noise out there.  Everywhere I look…someone is screaming, someone is shouting, and someone is trying to tear someone down.

And this is considered the new normal.  This is our reality.

I don’t mean to sound like I’m 100 years old, but I blame social media.  And the actual media.  And politics.  And reality TV.  And the Housewives.  Oh, how I wish the Housewives would shut the eff up.  Or at least quiet the hell down.

I don’t mean to be picking on the Housewives yet again, but since that’s all they seem to do to each other, I guess I’m in good company.

I’m a little confused these days.  Aren’t we in the age of female empowerment?  Aren’t we supposed to be building each other up?  Instead, everywhere I turn, some woman is trying to destroy another, and it’s usually simply to make herself look better.

What causes this rage and instinct to attack?  Jealousy?  Insecurity?  A bad case of PMS?

Hey ladies, I thought men were supposed to be the bad guys.

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