gossip

granting the heinousness of all evils of gossip, ranging from true personal spite and malice, suasion of political manipulation, self-braggadacio, blackballing of innocent and guilty alike, it accomplishes one crucial element more effectively, often more intrinsically, than all other forms of interpersonal communication. thanks to the conspiratorial nature of its compact, it makes friends of enemies, equals of heirachies, bypasses gender, race and age, all joining together in common speculation, stabbing and slander, to the satisfying shared cathartic pander of self-righteous pronouncements.

so when we're bitches, then all men are brothers.