Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Tanya Reynolds,

she's an assistant professor in psychology at the University of New Mexico,

whose research focuses on women's intersexual competition, biases in moral evaluations,

and social and sexual selection.

Ancestrally, men needed to go to war and hunt. Given this, it would be rather useful to be friends

with the spear-weilding bloke next to you so that you know he's got your back.

Women's use case for friends, however, is much more subtle and difficult to determine.

And today, we try to decipher the underpinnings of female friendships.

Expect to learn why women dislike working underneath a female boss,

the painful social existence that very attractive women have to endure,

why both men and women, by as seen women as victims and men as perpetrators,

why women develop opposite sex friendships, the most common ways women derogate their rivals,

why sexual gossip is a ruthless precision engineered tool, and much more.

This episode is very, very interesting. And it was the subject of today's newsletter,

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