Broken Glass

I don’t know exactly why, but for some reason it appears to me that girls derive immense pleasure from getting in between two guys. No, I’m not talking about a ménage à trois, though I’m sure they derive immense pleasure from that too. What I am referring to is a girl getting between two guys who are friends, and then cleaving their friendship apart little by little, until they aren’t even on talking terms any more.

We’ve seen it happen - either to us or to someone we know. Two guys are good friends, or at least friends at any rate. Then along comes a girl, and suddenly things start to change. It could be because both guys have romantic interests in the common target, it could be because one of them is involved romantically and this bothers the other for some reason, or it could well be for reasons that have naught to do with the affairs of the heart. Something else altogether.

Now this is all fine. It happens, whether one likes it or not. But the part that really gets my goat is when the female actually seems to enjoy the entire episode! Why should that be? Does she feel some sort of perverse pleasure in the ‘apparent’ power that she holds in her hand? She did after all cause two friends to split apart, and surely that is no mean feat. Do girls just have a latent sadistic streak in them lying somewhere below the surface? Are they not the least bit concerned about the friendship that lies shattered in their wake?

An excuse that often pops up is that the female was unaware of the entire drama being played out of which she was a ‘supposed’ part. I’m not going to buy that. In almost all the cases I know, the females were only too aware of the friendships being ruined. And yet they didn’t care. They never do. And they never will.