Our site is intended to be a gateway for women, a place where women can learn and understand how gender socialization processes, physiology, families, and the media play key roles in impacting and defining women-to-women relationships. Our site is intended to help women understand the sociocultural and contextual factors that contribute to women oppressing women, what psychological and/or socialization processes contribute to the oppression of women by women, why women are exhibiting hostility or displaying aggression towards one another, providing resources about women's studies, women's health, and more.

We have yet to find a definition which explains the phenomenon of women-to-women oppression. Webster's dictionary defines the word oppression as being the act of subjugating by cruelty; the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority.

While we have found women to engage in oppressive acts towards other women we have also found that women are rarely or not ever discussing this issue. While the research shows that more girls are engaging in what is called "relational aggression" (a form of aggression that is more indirect and covert) many women are also engaging in a similar manner towards other women.

Today's television programming is mostly violent in one form or another. Research has shown that some of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers may result in children imitating the violence they observe on television and/or identifying with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers.

Illustrations of how the media portrays women turning against each other is consistently portrayed on several television reality shows such as 'Elimidate,' 'The Bachelorette,' and 'Joe Millionaire.' The same oppressive behavior is displayed between women on other reality shows such as 'Survivor', 'The Apprentice', and Hefner's 'Girl Next Door', where women put each other down when the prize is money or a high positioned job. These reality shows are constantly pitting women against each other, by portraying women as harassing, physically fighting against, or bad- mouthing one other, typically to gain the affections of a man. However, when the situation is reversed (men competing for the affections of a woman) the same hostile behavior is not seen. Men will typically collaborate and work together as a team rather than turn against each other. It appears that women are not really fighting to gain the affections of men, rather it is that women are feeling anger due to years of experiencing oppression, and then directing their anger towards other women who are seen as safer targets. Other women are seen as safe targets because they are also oppressed and these women can understand and 'know' their pain.