Work
fashion-related bitching,overworked,undervalued
Top 10 things we love bitching about: Two women gossiping over wine
Who doesn\'t love to spend time having a good old moan about being undervalued and overworked? That said, you might want to keep your work-related bitching as an extracurricular activity – fellow colleagues can be all too tempted to use what they know against you come the next performance review
Clothes
clothes,fashion-related bitching
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Whether it\'s those Team Aniston/Team Jolie t-shirts from a few years back or Joan Crawford\'s classic putdown to rival actress Ingrid Bergman (\'I simply adore your dress. Did you make it yourself?\'), there\'s no doubt that women do fashion-related bitching in, ahem, style. Remember the Golden Rule, however, and keep it funny. It\'s not nice for anyone if you\'re just being cruel. However, wearing a swan for a dress absolutely demands bitching about...
Friends
fashion-related bitching,gossip,complaining about your mates behind their backs,talking about your friends behind their backs,friends
Top 10 things we love to bitch about: Friends: Group of friends bitching
Women bitch about their mates when they\'re unhappy with something but don\'t actually want to confront the girlfriend in question. Fair enough, but as a bitch technique it\'s barely removed from whispering behind hands in the playground. Better to turn it into a joke and say it to them directly – do it right and you can make \'em laugh AND make your point
Men
fashion-related bitching,men,why we love men,why we hate men,dating,relationships
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Now THIS is the topic where we really come into our own. From the size of their willies to their inability to govern the world (perhaps not so unrelated, no?), moaning about men is without doubt one of the single best, tip-topiest ways for women to bond. Be afraid, boys, be very afraid
Other women
fashion-related bitching,women competition,girl fights,friends
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Evolutionary theory has it that we ladies undermine each other out of sexual competition. Take Posh and Jordan\'s public bitch-fest a few years ago, when former-Spice was recording a single with Jumbo Jordan\'s then lover Dane Bowers. Who let the dogs out (the song Victoria greeted Jordan\'s entrance to a party with once), indeed?
Bosses
fashion-related bitching,bosses,co-workers,slagging the boss off
Top 10 things we love to bitch about: Our bosses
Bosses are the equivalent of bitch bonus points – everyone\'s got one and everyone accepts that they\'re fair game for slagging off. Beware the Superbitch, however, who actively encourages others in the office to spill the beans. Preferably while standing next to an open door with your boss on the other side. Just before your annual pay review
Weight
fashion-related bitching,weight issues
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Coco Chanel famously said you can never be too rich or too thin. These days, of course, you can actually be too thin as well. Just ask all those skinny models/celebs currently being hounded by the UK\'s \'concerned\' (read bitchy) media. It\'s a veritable minefield and one that\'s best avoided at all costs unless the object of your bitching is A: a celebrity, or B: your sworn enemy. You have been warned
Other people\'s children
fashion-related bitching,other people\'s children
Top 10 things we love to bitch about: Other people\'s children: Cute kid
If bosses are on one side of the sliding scale of acceptable bitchiness, then other people\'s children are very firmly on the other, in the land where even offhand comments read as 10 on the Bitchter scale. Three words – Don\'t. Go. There
Strangers
fashion-related bitching,snide remarks about a stranger\'s outfit,fashion victim
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Like shooting ducks in a barrel, insulting strangers is pretty much the most trouble-free bitching to be had this side of Heat magazine. But while celebrities are pretty much fair game, there\'s nothing much to be gained from making snide remarks about the poor misguided creature minding her own business in an overstuffed jumper dress. Unless, of course, you are very, very funny. Then pretty much everything is forgiven
Email and text
fashion-related bitching,complaining over email or text,bitching about someone in an email,bitching about someone in a text,friends
Top 10 things we love to bitch about: Woman and laptop: Bitching by e-mail
Not so much a topic of bitching but a final word of warning about the methods we use to do it. Bitching by email – and to a lesser degree texting – can go horribly wrong. Just ask anyone who\'s accidentally clicked the Reply All button on an email that was only intended for one address
The top 10 things we love to bitch about
fashion-related bitching,bitch guide,friends,sibling rivalry
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We take a more indepth look at the intricate rules of bitching with our
bitch guide. Plus, we take a look at rivalry between
friends and the age-old problem of
sibling rivalry
