professional bad example

have to say though, one of the advantages of the department i now work in is that it's staffed almost exclusively by men. not only is there no pointless gossiping and giggling and drama pulled out of peoples' asses for the sheer sake of it, it's also perfectly acceptable and even normal to verbally snipe at each other all the time and nobody takes it as anything other than the joke it's intended to be! and when people do have real problems with one another they bloody well say so and don't wage some ridiculous war of passive aggression! most of the stuff about behavioural differences between men and women may be stereotypes, but stereotypes can still be self-fulfilling prophecies, and clearly most people alive today have been affected by them to some degree. despite what some seem to believe, breaking out of these things isn't going to be as easy as running around shouting "but look though, people aren't actually born this way!".