Talk:Crab mentality/Archives/2017

Gender Perspective?
Why was this page re-edited to put the gender back to a female perspective, and who made that change back? when it applies more to men than women? I'd even be willing to compromise on neutral terms.

It seems feminists are trying to spam the page, and nobody seems to do anything about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bumblebritches57 (talk • contribs) 13:14, 31 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The feminine pronoun appears to refer to a character in a Terry Pratchett novel. Since "Crab mentality" is a rather negative term, if feminine pronouns were being used to refer to the phenomenon in general, this would appear to be more likely to be anti-feminist than feminist... AnonMoos (talk) 14:55, 31 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The book in question is Unseen Academicals where the behavior of crabs in a bucket is used as a metaphor for the way small-minded and petty people pull down anybody who tries to better themselves. In fact, I came here to find out if the story's true, and was quite pleased to learn that it is.  JDZeff (talk) 06:47, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

The German Wikipedia provides sources to surveys, reports or studies in which women feels espcecially hindered in their carrier by other women:

C. K. O'Neill: Frauen in der Führung: Mythen und Fakten. Band 9. Baldegger Verlag, 2004. Hochspringen ↑ M. Henn: Die Kunst des Aufstiegs: Was Frauen in Führungspositionen kennzeichnet. Campus Verlag, 2008. Hochspringen ↑ Barbara Dribbusch: Frau gegen Frau. In: taz.de. 27. September 2006, abgerufen am 20. März 2014.

All are in German, and I guess the feminists blocks any attempt to provide these information for the English Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.15.15.151 (talk) 16:30, 15 July 2017 (UTC)